moulder

«moulder» in Mova's school dictionary: to decay slowly and crumble, as old wood or stone does… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (moulders, mouldered, mouldering)

meaning for a pupil

1) To moulder is to decay slowly and crumble, as old wood or stone does over many years. tree →

2) «Mouldering» describes something old, falling to pieces and rotting. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories an old house, dovecot or castle is left to rot and fall apart, which suggests age and neglect; do not confuse with «mould», the green fungus

examples

• The old dovecot was mouldering in the field. tree →
• Old bones moulder in the ground. tree →
• Nobody had lived in the castle for years, and it began to moulder. tree →

note

nothing for maths; it describes decay, not an amount.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «moulder» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.