molder

Today's Word May 18, 2020

Definition: (verb) To crumble to dust; disintegrate.
Synonyms: rot, decompose.
Usage: Far better that crows and ravens … should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and molder in a pauper's grave.
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