molded

verb

past tense of mold
as in decomposed
to go through decomposition plants molding in the abandoned garden

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Recent Examples of molded Rogow has assembled a solid cast, molded to his vision, to close out Island City’s 14th season. — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026 Each piece is a little bit of the earth itself, molded to a shape that fits easily in the hand, baked to achieve permanence and then stacked, one atop another, to form a wall that can enclose, shelter and delight us. — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 Pointedly, none were discovered according to an agent’s discriminating taste or molded by an editor into a font of commercial storytelling. — M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 The past two years have shaped my early adulthood and molded my thought process around how far this music thing can really go for me. — Sidney Madden, VIBE.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Much of Hal’s personality has been molded to fit Chandler’s distinct charisma, but the bitter edge feels new. — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 The Community impact Rainbow Park’s closure is in some ways a flash point in the story of a changing neighborhood molded by economic and social pressures. — Austin Horn august 11, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 Visitors who’ve been drawn by nostalgia or curiosity to see it — and smell it — for themselves have molded over 3,000 sphinxes so far. — Juliet Bennett Rylah, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 Jumping back to today, or last year, the Engine A employs a single-piece molded upper along with an ERS midsole with cutouts that reveal a core of SuperFloat foam within. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molded
  1. decomposed
  2. disintegrated
  3. rotted
  4. decayed
Verb
  • Determining the causes of death was complicated by how decomposed the bodies were, the medical examiner’s office said.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The study hypothesized that the sickle was added before the body fully decomposed since no joints were detached or displaced, as archaeologists would expect if a grave were to be disturbed after the body became a skeleton.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of decomposed
Verb
  • Just seconds later, in a separate incident, the Brazilian F50 was about to go into a standard jibe maneuver (turning the boat through the wind to change direction) but disintegrated in the blink of an eye.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Tim Graham/Getty Images Most Popular Nader’s empire quickly disintegrated into chaos.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of disintegrated
Verb
  • By this point the food in her fridge rotted and her basement flooded.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In the process, Ownbey discovered support timbers had rotted away, forcing him to bring entire walls to his workshop for meticulous reconstruction.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of rotted
Verb
  • The resulting collisions formed excited compound nuclei that decayed through multiple gamma-ray steps.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of decayed

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“Molded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molded. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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