moldering

Molder \Mold"er\, Moulder \Mould"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Moldered}or {Mouldered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moldering} or
   {Mouldering}.] [From {Mold} fine soft earth: cf. Prov. G.
   multern.]
   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.
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         The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. --Bacon.
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         When statues molder, and when arches fall. --Prior.
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         If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have
         moldered to nothing.                     --Clarendon.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "moldering":
      ablative, at rest, biodegradable, blasted, blighted, blown, calm,
      cloistered, cool, corrosive, crumbling, decomposable, decomposing,
      degradable, despoiled, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated,
      disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dusty,
      dwindling, ebbing, erosive, even-tenored, flyblown, frowsty,
      frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gone to seed, halcyon, hushed, impassive,
      isolated, maggoty, mildewed, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty,
      pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, ravaged,
      reposeful, reposing, resolvent, restful, resting, ruined, ruinous,
      rusty, secluded, separative, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered,
      smooth, smutted, smutty, solvent, stale, still, still as death,
      stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, time-scarred, timeworn,
      tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled,
      unstirring, untroubled, waning, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn