amoulder

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verb

To moulder; to decay.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbamoulder (third-person singular simple present amoulders, present participle amouldering, simple past and past participle amouldered)

present singular third person amoulders · participle present amouldering · participle past amouldered · past amouldered · alternative amolder

  1. intransitiveTo moulder; to decay.

    I can imagine thousands of the blue and the grey who long ago have amouldered in the grave, rising up to call the name of this man "blessed".

    1937, The Journal of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, page 88
    1 more example

    What his men most often sang, while they actually were marching through Georgia, was another, and of its kind a great song: —“John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on. […]

    2018, Lord Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln, page 295

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