to mold
42
3.6
- verb
- /moʊld/
- US
:
moldear
- For example, educational background, income, and religious belief help to mold the experiences of each individual.
- shape and mold
- mold consciousness
- mold character
Your belief systems end up molding your identity of who you are.
- Your belief systems end up molding your identity of who you are.
- You can absolutely mold your subconscious mind.
- You really are moulding someone's brain and it sticks forever.
- So jawline, forehead, cheekbones and down the neck to kind of mould and blend it all into one.
- And then you just mold his stupid little head with what you want him to think.
- So like I adopted a lot of like him and like it like molded me.
- And I've, and I, I get those things based on how I grew up, how my parents molded me.
- And so a lot of us like in golf, people will try to mold themselves into some perfect kind of a swing and it never works.
- It's like it will mold in with anything you throw it out.
Examples
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You were trying to mold me into this little version of you.
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You can absolutely mold your subconscious mind.
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So when we play games, we have to kind of like mold ourselves, mold our values to the games we're playing.
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We have the responsibility to mold a life.
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You select them, you train them, you mold them.
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No doubt with their talks today, Clay and Clay will help mold our future.
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Your belief systems end up molding your identity of who you are.
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Clearly Rayden has molded you in his image.
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I molded you into what you are today, and now you're living the dream.
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Her goal in life was to be a teacher and to mold young minds.
Synonyms
591
2.2
To change how people and things think, act, or develop
328
3.4
To influence how a person or thing develops
282
3.1
To decide how something will happen or develop
156
1.6
To make or shape something
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease that makes a bluish-grey growth on the lower side of tobacco leaves and damages the plants
- Specialized
A slime mold that keeps its cells separate during its life cycle and does not form a single mass
- Specialized
A small ledge above a window or doorway that directs rain away from the wall
- Specialized
One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells
- Specialized
A soft organism that becomes one large cell with many nuclei and moves slowly
- Specialized
An algorithm inspired by the slime mold that finds efficient routes in networks
- Specialized
A soft mass of many cells that moves like an amoeba and feeds on decaying plants
- Specialized
A small living thing like a fungus that lives in fresh water and can harm plants or animals
How Influential
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2.4
328
3.4
- US
42
3.6
313
1.0
∞
2.3
33
3.8
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb mold meaning to influence comes from the same idea of shaping, so to mold a person's character or ideas is to shape them over time.