moldered

Wrecking balls hovered as the building moldered in foreclosure, but resurrection would not be denied even if it took the better part of two decades.

The family’s graceful villa in Yangon moldered, as did the rest of the country.

The washing machine moldered and then called it a day.

“As one gloomy expectant mother prophesied in 1801, ‘My dearest child, When this is delivered unto you, the hand that writes it will be moldered in dust.’”

Such a photo album project had moldered on my to-do list for years.