as in shed
to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside
a crab molts its shell as it grows larger
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Recent Examples of molted
Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.
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Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molted
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The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.—
Ari Berman,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Once in the asteroid's orbit, NASA's spacecraft is slated to take pictures of the asteroid's surface and shed light on its composition, over the course of about two years.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Long before Richard Gadd peeled back a layer of his psyche with Baby Reindeer, his Emmy-winning Netflix show, the story for his new limited series Half Man, now airing on HBO, lived in his head.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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From there, everyone rows imua (forward), keeping eyes peeled for sea turtles, sea urchin, and on a really good day in January or February, a mama whale and her baby.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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“Molted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molted. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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