as in to rot
to form rust
The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house.
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Recent Examples of rust
However, this applies to body panels that have been completely rusted through, and not to mere paint bubbling.
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Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Sadly, snow, rain, and ice can cause an unused grill to rust and corrode, and in some cases, damage it beyond repair.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
Use water-resistant drawer organizers (such as bamboo) in the kitchen to ensure utensils don't rust.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
The enameled surface makes the Dutch oven nonstick and protects its cast iron base from rusting.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Sadly, snow, rain, and ice can cause an unused grill to rust and corrode, and in some cases, damage it beyond repair.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
Use water-resistant drawer organizers (such as bamboo) in the kitchen to ensure utensils don't rust.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
The enameled surface makes the Dutch oven nonstick and protects its cast iron base from rusting.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for rust
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rust
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These waivers are now being implemented, that it is being executed, that food will be going out, but, to your point, about $40 million in food rotting in these warehouses in Houston, about 500,000 metric tons on ships on the sea.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Like Twin Peaks, The Return opened with two murders, when a kissing couple were mauled by a mysterious monster who emerges from a glass box, and a body without a head and a head without a body were found rotting in a faraway room.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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What doesn’t decay this winter can be mulched up next spring.—
Jeff Lowenfels,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Sep. 2022
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In particular, many theorists have wondered how the great complexity of life can be reconciled with the laws of thermodynamics that suggest that all systems must inevitably decay to a state of greatest disorder.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
29 Apr. 2022
Verb
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The bag had maggots inside and inside the suitcase police found the decomposing body of Johnson’s 7-year-old niece, Joshlyn Marie James Johnson, according to the news outlet.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2025
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Read Next Florida Surgeon removed wrong organ, killing man — and a cover-up followed, Florida suit says January 31, 2025 5:13 PM Read Next National Hospital left mom’s body to decompose in unrefrigerated room, suit says.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2025
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Yet critics insist on revisiting the women in combat debate, distracting from actual issues and corroding the unity essential to military strength.—
Marissa Loya,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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Social mores have been corroded by the banalization of violence, and patriotism is now seen as the willingness to sell oneself to the trenches for an ever-higher price, in the form of lavish enlistment bonuses and salaries.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Rust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rust. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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