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
Pinky’s fame grew even as the bird bent, molted and faded with each turn of the calendar.
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Ryan Steven Green,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
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
Ryan Steven Green,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molted
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Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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The bipartisan Colorado Polling Institute released a survey that sheds some more light on Melat Kiros win.
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Put peeled and sliced Yukon Gold potatoes in a large saucepan, cover with water by 2 inches, and add a generous couple of pinches of salt.
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Keep your eyes peeled for bobcats, foxes, gopher tortoises, pileated woodpeckers, and bald eagles.
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“Molted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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