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verb

Rust v. t.

To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind. "Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."

Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity.

Rust v. i. (past & past part. rusted; pres. part. rusting)

To contract rust; to be or become oxidized. "If gold ruste, what shall iron do?" "Our armors now may rust."

To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. "Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?"

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Etymology of 'Rusting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rusting" Quotes from Famous Books

... thick with rusting cans, old tires and miscelaneous rubbish. Some of them are so gutted by gully wash that any attempt at beautification would be worse than useless. Some are swept—farm fashion—free from surface dust and twigs. Some attempt—others ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... meal, where every one's health was drank in fragrant coffee, from Grandma Dering, down to Prince, who had been returned to the home of his youth, and was passing his last days in peaceful content, with just enough exercise to keep his old bones from rusting out too fast. And then they talked of those who were gone from the circle: Father Dering, Ernestine, and lastly, dear old Uncle Ridley, who had died that year, and for whom every one had ...

— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving

... now easy to yoke the bulls and to harness them to the plow which had lain rusting on the ground for a great many years gone by, so long was it before anybody could be found capable of plowing that piece of land. Jason, I suppose, had been taught how to draw a furrow by the good old Chiron, who, perhaps, used to allow himself to be harnessed ...

— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various

... To see the rusting turbines stand Before the emptied flumes, To fold the arms that flood the land With rivers from their looms,— But harder still for those who learn The truth forgot so long; When once their slumbering passions burn, The peaceful ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... sinuously through them. And always the odor of humid decomposition. Farther on, the road looks wilder, sloping between black rocks, through strange vaultings of foliage and night-black shadows. Its lonesomeness oppresses; one returns without regret, by rusting gate-ways and tottering walls, back to the old West Indian city ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

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