molder

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  • By then she already suspected that she was carrying Aldaya's child, but was afraid of telling him, almost as much as she was afraid of losing him. —  The Shadow of the Wind
  • Once the warrantee was arrested, Davis would locate the car, let it molder in his garage, do some minor defacing of it, then report to the dealer that the mother dog was in bad, bad shape. —  Hollywood Nocturne
  • They gave him fealty in a ritual as old as An, their molder-ing blades flashing greyly in the moonlight. —  Harpist in the Wind
  • The term "gold-molder" was intended as an insult - implying that the Daewar were as soft and malleable as the bright metal that was the color of their hair and beards, and which they favored for ornamentation. —  The Covenant of the Forge
  • Your cannons molder on the seaward wall; —  Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
 

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/ˈmoʊldər/
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