"molt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: molts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} molt (plural molts)
  1. US standard spelling of moult. Tags: US, alt-of, standard Alternative form of: moult
    Sense id: en-molt-en-noun-K9Dx6VrX Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: molts [present, singular, third-person], molting [participle, present], molted [participle, past], molted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} molt (third-person singular simple present molts, present participle molting, simple past and past participle molted)
  1. US standard spelling of moult. Tags: US, alt-of, standard Alternative form of: moult
    Sense id: en-molt-en-verb-K9Dx6VrX Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} molt
  1. (rare) simple past of melt Tags: form-of, past, rare Form of: melt
    Sense id: en-molt-en-verb-44-AB8-O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 13 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for molt meaning in English (1.9kB)

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