to rust
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1.7
- verb
- /rʌst/
:
oxidarse
- If left outside, the bike will rust quickly due to the rain.
- rusted metal
- rusting steel
- rusting iron
There is a theory that women's razors rust faster than men's.
- There is a theory that women's razors rust faster than men's.
- Not to mention, steel can rust, so I'm not going to use steel.
- The stainless steel rust, the stuff that doesn't rust, right?
- Sell all the materials off for scrap while they rust in the desert.
- That is orange screws look like they're starting to rust.
- That's why we have antioxidants oxidation make means rust corrode.
Examples
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Without it, we'll all perish, oxidize and rust, like my wretched self!
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Make sure that doesn't rust, Henry.
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Oxygen eventually will make it rust away.
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I'll just sit in this room and rust away, then, shall I?
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Sell all the materials off for scrap while they rust in the desert.
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That's a lot of guns going to rust.
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It'll wear out in the heavens not nearly as fast in the air as it'll rust out on the ground.
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Finding Vampire before the steel and wood structure rusted, rotted away, and collapsed became a priority.
Academic text (2009) -
Laila glances covertly at the house with the rusted car where she knows the boy lives.
Fiction book (1992) -
The creature pulled back from the gate and rammed the rusted iron bars, bending one of them.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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5.6
Become slowly damaged by chemicals, for example when metal turns to rust
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6.3
A gradual wearing away of metal or other materials by chemical action
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
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4.9
A region of the northeastern and midwestern United States with many old factories and fewer people
- Specialized
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9.0
A disease of pine trees that makes blisters and dead patches on the bark, caused by a fungus
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes orange spots on the leaves and fruit of apple and pear trees
- Specialized
A fungus that causes orange spots on flax leaves and damages plants
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A plant disease that makes small orange-brown spots on flax leaves and stems
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A very small animal like an insect that lives on plants and makes reddish brown spots on leaves or fruit
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes reddish or brown spots on wheat leaves and stems and reduces harvest
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A disease of pine trees caused by a fungus that makes blisters on the trunk and kills the wood
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes blisters on the bark and weakens white pine trees
How Corroded
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rust as a verb comes from the same old German word for that 'red-brown' decay, so to rust is to become covered with that reddish-brown layer. That's why we say metal left in the rain will rust.