Definitions for Rust

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Rust rust

Spelling: [ruhst]

IPA: /rʌst/

Rust is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Rust (rstu).

Definitions for Rust

noun

1. Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
2. any film or coating on metal caused by oxidation.
3. a stain resembling this coating.
4. any growth, habit, influence, or agency tending to injure, deteriorate, or impair the mind, character, abilities, usefulness, etc.
5. Plant Pathology. any of several diseases of plants, characterized by reddish, brownish, or black pustules on the leaves, stems, etc., caused by fungi of the order Uredinales. Also called rust fungus. a fungus causing this disease. any of several other diseases of unknown cause, characterized by reddish-brown spots or discolorations on the affected parts.
6. reddish yellow, reddish brown, or yellowish red.

adjective

1. having the color rust.

Verb phrases

1. rust out, (of metal pipes, machinery, etc.) to decay and become unusable through the action of rust.
2. rust through, to develop holes, breaks, or the like, because of rust.
3. rust together, to join two metal pieces, as iron pipes, by causing the joint to rust.

verb (used with object)

1. to affect with rust.
2. to impair as if with rust.
3. to make rust-colored.

verb (used without object)

1. to become or grow rusty, as iron.
2. to contract rust.
3. to deteriorate or become impaired, as through inaction or disuse.
4. to become rust-colored.

Origin of Rust

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English rūst; cognate with German Rost; (v.) Middle English rusten, derivative of the noun; akin to red¹

Examples for Rust

And the saga of rust Cohle and Marty Hart had, sadly, come to a close.

The rust Belt city underwent its industrial boom during the Civil War when its steel mills helped produce weapons.

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

Some of the mutterings of rust Cohle come from the perfectly elliptical and safely imprecise musings of Thomas Ligotti.

Still, there is hope for the Republicans in the rust Belt—if they can give the public a reason to vote for them.

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

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

Cenicafé researchers “anticipated climate change would create a scenario where rust was a real pandemic threat,” says Rhinehart.

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.