Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to moult
Participle: moulted
Gerund: moulting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | moult |
| you | moult |
| he;she;it | moults |
| we | moult |
| you | moult |
| they | moult |
Perfect
| I | have moulted |
| you | have moulted |
| he;she;it | has moulted |
| we | have moulted |
| you | have moulted |
| they | have moulted |
Past
| I | moulted |
| you | moulted |
| he;she;it | moulted |
| we | moulted |
| you | moulted |
| they | moulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had moulted |
| you | had moulted |
| he;she;it | had moulted |
| we | had moulted |
| you | had moulted |
| they | had moulted |
Future
| I | will moult |
| you | will moult |
| he;she;it | will moult |
| we | will moult |
| you | will moult |
| they | will moult |
Future Perfect
| I | will have moulted |
| you | will have moulted |
| he;she;it | will have moulted |
| we | will have moulted |
| you | will have moulted |
| they | will have moulted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | moult |
| you | moult |
| he;she;it | moult |
| we | moult |
| you | moult |
| they | moult |
Perfect
| I | have moulted |
| you | have moulted |
| he;she;it | have moulted |
| we | have moulted |
| you | have moulted |
| they | have moulted |
Imperfect
| I | moulted |
| you | moulted |
| he;she;it | moulted |
| we | moulted |
| you | moulted |
| they | moulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had moulted |
| you | had moulted |
| he;she;it | had moulted |
| we | had moulted |
| you | had moulted |
| they | had moulted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would moult |
| you | would moult |
| he;she;it | would moult |
| we | would moult |
| you | would moult |
| they | would moult |
Perfect
| I | would have moulted |
| you | would have moulted |
| he;she;it | would have moulted |
| we | would have moulted |
| you | would have moulted |
| they | would have moulted |
Imperative
| you | moult |
| we | Let's moult |
| you | moult |
Verbs conjugated like 'moult'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'moult'
boult,
molt,
mould,
moule,
mount,
adult,
amount,
bolt,
boule,
bout,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English mouten, from Old English *mutian (attested in bemutian, “to exchange for”), from Latin mūtō (“to (re)move, change, vary, mutate, exchange, abandon”). Doublet of mute and mutate. The unetymological ⟨l⟩ was introduced into the spelling by mistakenly assuming a French origin with -l- as in fault and vault; compare solder, which in contrast has an etymological ⟨l⟩ (from Latin solidāre, “to make solid“) but was historically pronounced without that grapheme's sound. See: Latin '
mūtō'.
Verbs referencing "moult"
Spanish
mudar.
Sample Sentences
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Birds moult periodically.
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[…] molted into a new suit so that he could fly. [1899, The Chautauquan, volume 29, page 134]
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[…] ; but each bird, Red or Black, male or female, has invariably moulted true to colour - a Black has never moulted into a Red. [1906, The Avicultural Magazine, volume 4, page 80]
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The engorged nymphae were collected on the 2nd August, 1910, and moulted into adults on the 19th September, 1910. Later, they were placed on cattle […] [1911, Report of the Director of Veterinary Research, page 212]
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[…] One of the few Streak-headed Mannikins which I kept moulted into its second-year plumage with a pair of white feathers on its breast and a Scaly-breasted Munia grew several white primaries, as did a White-spotted Mannikin. [2010, Robin Restall, Munias and Mannikins, page 19]
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[…] to grow and molt into a new version of herself. [2020, Kurone Kanzaki, Demon Lord, Retry! Volume 4]
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With the personnel changes at Oxford, Reading could moult into a new centre for Wittgenstein studies, which also included John Preston and Max de Gaynesford . [2022, Christoph C. Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb, Eva Schmidt, Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, page 1994]
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Tammy will get the girl a phone and some clothes, […] Some woman from a Georgia hive will build a fake ID and ship it up in a few weeks. Whoever Jess was before will shrivel away, and a new person will molt—so to speak—into its place. [2025, Andrew Joseph White, You Weren't Meant to Be Human: A Novel, chapter 2]
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Turtle-droves […] moulted their feathers. [1929, Percy MacKaye, Claude Merton Wise, The Sphinx: A Comedy in One Act, page 35]