bouldered

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The most valuable stuff, which might previously have mouldered on a cluttered shelf, is sold online, often via eBay for Charity, which has raised $725m.

From Economist • Sep. 28, 2017

Some 2,000 people have mouldered for years in the island camps, earning Australia rebukes from human-rights groups at home and abroad.

From Economist • Nov. 17, 2016

Whose talents and virtues will be admired Long after this marble shall have mouldered into dust.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016

Architects' plans for a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a College of Fine Arts, new dormitories, have mouldered for years in Livingston Farrand's desk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their forms seemed to linger, long after the forms that cast them had mouldered into impalpable dust.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry