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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of molder.

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Examples

  • Or you could just hunt around for a gorgeously moldered used copy.

    9. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake 2009

  • I see Grampa taking me to the urine bucket on a mossy floor, where bamboo curtains moldered.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • I see Grampa taking me to the urine bucket on a mossy floor, where bamboo curtains moldered.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • It just sat there on her shelves, covered in dust, as her lavender died and her cups got chipped and her whole life moldered with age.

    GREEDY • by Stephanie Siebert 2008

  • I see Grampa taking me to the urine bucket on a mossy floor, where bamboo curtains moldered.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • "I can't even begin to tell you how many elves, offspring of Santa and reindeer have been introduced over the past 25 or so years, most of which have moldered in obscurity."

    This Christmas elf flies off the shelf 2010

  • As the war progressed, many of those blue stars were replaced by gold ones; sometimes the lawns of those small wood-frame houses remained uncut, the rolled newspapers moldered in the flower beds, the shades were drawn and never raised again.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • Virtually the entire Cuban middle class fled to the U.S. after Fidel Castro's revolution, turning Miami into a business hub for Latin America while Havana moldered.

    Brain Drain 2009

  • Science News / A Prayer For Archimedes: For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next.

    Archive 2009-01-25 Bill Crider 2009

  • In visiting the monastery in the month of May 1844, I perceived in the middle of the great hall a large and wide basket full of old parchments; and the librarian who was a man of information told me that two heaps of papers like these, moldered by time, had been already committed to the flames.

    Archive 2009-06-01 James F. McGrath 2009

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