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/rˈəstɪŋ/ Listen

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

... covering themselves with skins and furs.[92] The Company, however, succeeded in obtaining for them from the King many suits of old armor that were of great value in their wars with the savages. Coats of mail and steel that had become useless on the battlefields of Europe and had for years been rusting in the Tower of London, were polished up and sent to Virginia. Thus, behind the palisades of Henrico or in the fort at Jamestown one might have seen at this time soldiers encased in armor that had done service in the days of Richard III and ...

— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... getting into trim again before they sail out of the river, so things may not be so slack after all. You will find everything in order in the store. I have had little to do but to polish up brass work and keep the metal from rusting. When do ...

— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... was to scour a suit of armor that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had lain time out of mind carelessly rusting in a corner; but when he had cleaned and repaired it as well as he could, he perceived there was a material piece wanting; for, instead of a complete helmet, there was only a single headpiece. However, his industry supplied that defect; for with some ...

— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan

... together; 'neath the enemy's roof he Went with the seven; one of the heroes 65 Who fared at the front, a fire-blazing torch-light Bare in his hand. No lot then decided Who that hoard should havoc, when hero-earls saw it Lying in the cavern uncared-for entirely, Rusting to ruin: they rued then but little 70 That they hastily ...

— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin

... tiers from rusting, they are coated with coal-tar. The tower itself is painted white. The only brasing which has been thought necessary is a few cross tiers at each horizontal joint, over which the iron-tongued wood-floors ...

— Smeaton and Lighthouses - A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel • John Smeaton

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