mildew

1. 1.

   become moldy; spoil due to humidity

   “The furniture molded in the old house”

   Synonymsmold

   Broaderchange

   Narrowersmutdry-rot

Other forms of mildew

plural

mildews·

past tense

mildewed·

present participle

mildewing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mildew

What does mildew mean?

mildew means "the process of becoming mildewed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mildew?

mildew has 2 syllables: mil-dew. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /ˈmɪlˌdu/.

What is another word for mildew?

Close synonyms include mold, mould, mold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mildew a common word?

mildew is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mildew?

21 words rhyme with mildew. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.