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rust

noun as in corrosion

verb as in corrode

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A light powered by a makeshift electrical connection shone at the doorway of the rusted shack where Bryan lives with his wife and nine-year-old son.

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Carbon steel gives a sharper edge than stainless steel, and it’s easier to sharpen, but the blade rusts easily.

What to do with this inanimate object, whose newly visible rust spots Ms. Wilson began to equate with the cracks she had failed to discern in her marriage?

Swooshing and circling dizzily around the actors, it deserves to have its tripod rusted to the ground.

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Now, in six rusting ships, fourteen hundred of those Cubans were sailing back home.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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