Molder vs. Smolder — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Molder and Smolder
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Molder
To crumble to dust; disintegrate.
Smolder
To burn with little smoke and no flame.
Molder
To cause to crumble.
Smolder
To exist in a suppressed state
Revolution smoldered in the masses.
Molder
One who molds something into shape.
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Smolder
To show signs of repressed anger or hatred.
Molder
A person who makes molds.
Smolder
Thick smoke resulting from a slow fire.
Molder
A tool for making molds.
Smolder
To burn with no flame and little smoke.
The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
Molder
A machine for making molding.
Smolder
To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
Molder
Standard spelling of moulder
The old book was left to molder until only the cover was left to show it had ever been written.
Smolder
To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
Molder
One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
Smolder
The act of smoldering or something that smolders.
Molder
To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away.
The moldering of earth in frosts and sun.
When statues molder, and when arches fall.
If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing.
Smolder
To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
Molder
To turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away.
[Time's] gradual touchHas moldered into beauty many a tower.
Smolder
To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
Molder
Break down;
The bodies decomposed in the heat
Smolder
To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
Smolder
Smoke; smother.
The smolder stops our nose with stench.
Smolder
Burn slowly and without a flame;
A smoldering fire
Smolder
Have strong suppressed feelings
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