Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to moulder
Participle: mouldered
Gerund: mouldering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | moulder |
| you | moulder |
| he;she;it | moulders |
| we | moulder |
| you | moulder |
| they | moulder |
Perfect
| I | have mouldered |
| you | have mouldered |
| he;she;it | has mouldered |
| we | have mouldered |
| you | have mouldered |
| they | have mouldered |
Past
| I | mouldered |
| you | mouldered |
| he;she;it | mouldered |
| we | mouldered |
| you | mouldered |
| they | mouldered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mouldered |
| you | had mouldered |
| he;she;it | had mouldered |
| we | had mouldered |
| you | had mouldered |
| they | had mouldered |
Future
| I | will moulder |
| you | will moulder |
| he;she;it | will moulder |
| we | will moulder |
| you | will moulder |
| they | will moulder |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mouldered |
| you | will have mouldered |
| he;she;it | will have mouldered |
| we | will have mouldered |
| you | will have mouldered |
| they | will have mouldered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | moulder |
| you | moulder |
| he;she;it | moulder |
| we | moulder |
| you | moulder |
| they | moulder |
Perfect
| I | have mouldered |
| you | have mouldered |
| he;she;it | have mouldered |
| we | have mouldered |
| you | have mouldered |
| they | have mouldered |
Imperfect
| I | mouldered |
| you | mouldered |
| he;she;it | mouldered |
| we | mouldered |
| you | mouldered |
| they | mouldered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mouldered |
| you | had mouldered |
| he;she;it | had mouldered |
| we | had mouldered |
| you | had mouldered |
| they | had mouldered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would moulder |
| you | would moulder |
| he;she;it | would moulder |
| we | would moulder |
| you | would moulder |
| they | would moulder |
Perfect
| I | would have mouldered |
| you | would have mouldered |
| he;she;it | would have mouldered |
| we | would have mouldered |
| you | would have mouldered |
| they | would have mouldered |
Imperative
| you | moulder |
| we | Let's moulder |
| you | moulder |
Verbs conjugated like 'moulder'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'moulder'
boulder,
foulder,
molder,
moulden,
poulder,
smoulder,
founder,
lounder,
maunder,
moder,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”). Mould is derived from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] the same. Mile after mile of stunted trees: some hewn down by the axe, some blown down by the wind, some half fallen and resting on their neighbours, many mere logs half hidden in the swamp, others mouldered away to spongy chips. The very soil of the earth is made up of minute fragments such as these; each pool of stagnant water has its crust of vegetable rottenness; on every side there are the boughs, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] was a large garden was now all grown over with weeds, through which, here and there, some solitary exotic reared its forsaken head. What had been a conservatory had now no window-shades, and on the mouldering shelves stood some dry, forsaken flower-pots, with sticks in them, whose dried leaves showed they had once been plants.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Harold’s Pilgrimage, Can_. 4. The sitting-room of Legree's establishment was a large, long room, with a wide, ample fireplace. It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. The place had that peculiar sickening, unwholesome smell, compounded of mingled damp, dirt and decay, which one often notices in close old houses. The [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)