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# moulder

«moulder» in Mova's school dictionary: **to decay slowly and crumble, as old wood or stone does…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (moulders, mouldered, mouldering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To moulder is to decay slowly and crumble, as old wood or stone does over many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/#m1)

2) «Mouldering» describes something old, falling to pieces and rotting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories an old house, dovecot or castle is left to rot and fall apart, which suggests age and neglect; do not confuse with «mould», the green fungus

### examples

- The old dovecot was mouldering in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/#x1)
- Old bones moulder in the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/#x2)
- Nobody had lived in the castle for years, and it began to moulder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes decay, not an amount.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moulder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moulder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.