amoulder

English

Alternative forms

• amolder

Etymology

From a- +‎ moulder.

Verb

amoulder (third-person singular simple present amoulders, present participle amouldering, simple past and past participle amouldered)

1. (intransitive) To moulder; to decay.
   • 1937, The Journal of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, page 88:

     I can imagine thousands of the blue and the grey who long ago have amouldered in the grave, rising up to call the name of this man "blessed".

   • 2018, Lord Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln, page 295:

     What his men most often sang, while they actually were marching through Georgia, was another, and of its kind a great song:
     —“John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave,
     But his soul goes marching on. […]