moulder

Meanings

Plural: moulders

Verb

break down
Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
To die away, to disappear.
Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.

Noun

A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
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”)

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

decompose, molder, mould, rot

Scrabble Score: 10

moulder is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
moulder is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
moulder is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

moulder is a valid Words With Friends word