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Definition of mouldering : of Moulder

Synonyms:

moldering, decomposing, rotting, rotten

fading, sinking, putrefying, atrophying, downgrading, relapsing, degenerating, going downhill, ebbing, regressing, slipping, getting worse, tergiversating, sliding, decaying, retrogressing, falling apart, reverting, collapsing, withering, wilting, slumping, worsening, lapsing, deteriorating, declining, dilapidating, waning

Usage examples:

• And what was left now of all those hopes, those strivings, those fiery energies, save here and there in some old- world churchyard a few scratches upon a stone, and perchance a handful of dust in a mouldering coffin? - "Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life", Arthur Conan Doyle.
• In the openings which time and violence have made, a distant grove of cypresses discover themselves; springing from heaps of mouldering ruins, relieved by a clear transparent sky, strewed with a few red clouds. - "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents", William Beckford.
• Mouldering, light grey rocks indicate that the wind and weather past centuries has lashed over them. - "Pictures of Sweden", Hans Christian Andersen.