different between smoulder vs moulder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm??ld?(?)/

Verb

smoulder (third-person singular simple present smoulders, present participle smouldering, simple past and past participle smouldered)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain) Alternative form of smolder
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

     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.

2. (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

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Noun

smoulder

1. (obsolete) smoke; smother
   • 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres

     The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

Anagrams

• R-modules, moulders, remoulds

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??ld?/

Alternative forms

• (US) molder

Etymology 1

Verbal use of mould

Verb

moulder (third-person singular simple present moulders, present participle mouldering, simple past and past participle mouldered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To decay or rot.
   • 1772–1782, William Mason, The English Garden:

     [Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower.

   • c. 1855, John Brown’s Body:

     John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!

Related terms

mouldery

Etymology 2

mould +? -er

Noun

moulder (plural moulders)

1. A person who moulds dough into loaves.
2. Anyone who moulds or shapes things.
3. A machine used for moulding.

Anagrams

• R-module, remould