rust

nouncorrosion
verbcorrode

Synonyms for rust

noun corrosion

Antonyms for rust

Word Origin & History

"red oxide of iron," Old English rust "rust; moral canker," related to rudu "redness," from Proto-Germanic *rusta- (cf. Frisian rust, Old High German and German rost, Middle Dutch ro(e)st), from PIE *reudh-s-to- (cf. Lithuanian rustas "brownish," rudeti "to rust;" Latin robigo, Old Church Slavonic ruzda "rust"), from root *reudh- "red" (see red (adj.1)).

As a plant disease, attested from mid-14c. Rust Belt "decayed urban industrial areas of mid-central U.S." (1984) was popularized, if not coined, by Walter Mondale's presidential campaign.

Example Sentences for rust

Repeatedly he requested the Admiralty that they would not leave him to rust in indolence.

His oft quoted maxim was, "It is better to wear out than to rust out."

“It is better to wear out than rust out,” said Bishop Cumberland.

It was with rust almost as dark a brown as the scabbard that infolded it.

I want to get the rust off, and breathe the air of Paris a bit.'

Rubiginosa means full of rust, so called from the color of the plant.

There is mingled with it a fine and small portion of earth which comes out in the form of rust.

The rest of the keys were worn red with thick encrustation of rust.

Nor was he likely, on account of it, to allow himself to run to rust in the security of Tortuga.

If you stir iron and sand together, the iron will rust as if alone.

rust

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auburn

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bronze

brown

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rust

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