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单词 milder
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milderv.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪldə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪldər/
Forms: 1500s mylder, 1600s 1800s– milder.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: moulder v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of or otherwise related to moulder v.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Lincolnshire and Dorset.
Now rare (chiefly English regional).
intransitive. To moulder, to decay; to crumble away. Also figurative. Occasionally transitive.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty
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to grow whiskers1977
1592 [see mildered adj. at Derivatives].
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 353 Their estates crumble and milder away.
1646 H. More Cupid's Conflict 3 Unthankfull wretch! Gods gifts thus to reject And maken nought of Natures goodly dower That milders still away through thy neglect.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Moulder, agro Linc. Milder.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) It's clean mildered away. The frost lays hold on it and it milders down.
1989 L. O'Toole Goin' to Town with Katie Ann in Canad. Fiction Mag. 66 177 Ya must of been mildered waitin' fer me.

Derivatives

mildered adj. Obsolete
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1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 6 And in the myldered places of broken walles grew Howslike, and the hanging Cymbalaria.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. at Milder The stone-work is so mildered.
mildering adj. Obsolete rare
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ix. 20 This practise is most approuable and peculiar in mildring Clay, which otherwise by shooting and melting downe into open Trenches, would choake vp the water-passages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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