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What (who) is mouldering - definition


mouldering      
adjective slowly decay.
Mouldering      
·- of Moulder.
moulder         
A STATIONARY WOODWORKING MACHINE IN WHICH A VERTICALLY ORIENTED SPINDLE DRIVES CUTTER HEADS TO MILL PROFILES ON WOOD STOCK.
Draft:Moulder (disambiguation); Moulders; Moulder (disambiguation)
(moulders, mouldering, mouldered)
Note: in AM, use 'molder'
If something is mouldering, it is decaying slowly where it has been left.
...one of your scripts that's been mouldering under the bed for ages...
It is clear that such ideas will be left to moulder.
...the empty, mouldering old house.
VERB: usu cont, V, V, V-ing
Examples of use of mouldering
1. Perhaps she just likes things that are a bit mouldering and creepy.
2. Mouldering behind bars Four years ago Dean, sporting 11 respectable GCSEs, crashed his life.
3. Most of those who did what they did have been mouldering in the cemeteries of Europe since the early 1'40s.
4. Survival depended on the stores that had been brought on the ships, and those were rapidly mouldering; in their desperation the settlers consumed them anyway.
5. Twelve months later, in an attic somewhere near Fulham, a poster of John Pertwee duly lay, slowly curling, leaning against a mouldering model of a Dalek.