molder
1- to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- to cause to molder.
Origin of molder
1Examples from the Web for moulder
Historical Examples of moulder
The flesh, clad with which he walked our earth, may moulder in the vaults beneath.
New Italian sketchesJohn Addington Symonds
Phidias the Moulder had, as has before been said, undertaken to make the statue of Athena.
The Boys' and Girls' PlutarchPlutarch
I am the wax within the moulder's hands, and as thou dost fashion me so I shall be.
CleopatraH. Rider Haggard
There, then, was the place where he too was to lie and moulder in the dust.
Over the TeacupsOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Come up along side of me, old fellow," Moulder said to Snengkeld.
Orley FarmAnthony Trollope
moulder
1US molder
- (often foll by away) to crumble or cause to crumble, as through decay
Word Origin for moulder
moulder
2US molder
- a person who moulds or makes moulds
- printing one of the set of electrotypes used for making duplicates
molder
- the US spelling of moulder 1
Word Origin and History for moulder
see molder. Related: Mouldered; mouldering.
molder
also moulder, "to crumble away," 1530s, probably frequentative of mold (n.3) "loose earth." Related: Moldered; moldering.
molder
also moulder, mid-15c., "one who molds or forms," agent noun from mold (v.). From late 13c. as a surname.