Moulders vs Smoulders - What's the difference?
moulders | smoulders |
(moulder)
To decay or rot.
* Mason
*c.1855': John Brown's body lies a-'''mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on! — Traditional, ''John Brown's Body
* 1841 , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Rainy Day", Ballads and Other Poems
A person who moulds dough into loaves.
Anyone who moulds or shapes things.
A machine used for moulding.
(smoulder)
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
*:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
(obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(obsolete) smoke; smother
* Gascoigne
As verbs the difference between moulders and smoulders
is that moulders is (moulder) while smoulders is (smoulder).moulders
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(head)Anagrams
* *moulder
English
Verb
(en verb)- [Time's] gradual touch / Has mouldered into beauty many a tower.
- The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
- It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
- But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
- And the day is dark and dreary.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*smoulders
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Verb
(head)smoulder
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(en verb)- (Holinshed)
- (Palsgrave)
Noun
- The smoulder stops our nose with stench.
