moulder

Meaning

Verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, transitive) Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
2. (UK, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
3. (UK, intransitive) Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
4. (UK, figuratively, intransitive) To die away, to disappear.
5. (UK, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.

Noun

1. (UK, archaic) A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
2. (UK, broadly) A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
3. (UK, broadly) An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
4. (UK, broadly, figuratively) A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
5. (UK) A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.

Noun

1. (Ireland, Orkney, Shetland, UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
2. (UK, obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.

Noun

Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)

Synonyms

molder

rot

decompose

decay

putrefy

crumble

creator

founder

rolling pin

be stuffy

putrify

damp off

caster

molding machine

cave in

collapse

fall in

mortify

mouldered

oxidate

plaster

Translations

marcire

σαπίζω

ammiffire

rotten

enmohecerse

vermodern

zerfallen

Gießer

inumidirsi

καταρρέω

in Dampf gekocht werden

oxidieren

descompondre’s

πλάστης

gedünstet werden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈməʊldə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mold

Inherited from Old English: molde

In summary

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”).