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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

... man spelled energy at bay, forces rusting, ennui past telling. But force still dominated. Force showed in the close-cropped, black hair and the small ears set close to the head; in the corded throat and heavy jaws; in the well-muscled shoulders, ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... prevent iron and steel from rusting, mix with fat oil varnish, at least half, or at most four fifths of its quantity of highly rectified spirits of turpentine. This varnish must be lightly and evenly applied with a sponge; after which the article is left to dry in some situation not exposed to dust. Articles ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... sword is rusting in its sheath, His flag furled on the wall; We'll twine them with a holly-wreath, With ...

— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard

... is; how grey the walls! No minstrel now wakes echoes in these halls. The broken chain lies rusting on the door, And noisome weeds have split the marble floor: Here lurks the snake, and here the lizards run By the stone lions blinking in the sun. Byron dwelt here in love and revelry For two long years—a second Anthony, Who ...

— Poems • Oscar Wilde

... arise in its wrath. Good old Tintop had been gathered to his fathers by that time. Riggs was rusting out of active service, Pegleg was buried and Mrs. Pegleg was married again,—a lieutenant this time; but there was no lack of men to remember how he had managed by political influence at Washington to secure the acceptance of his resignation ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

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