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rusting
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: to form rust : become oxidized <iron rusts>
2
: to degenerate especially from inaction, lack of use, or passage of time <most men would…have allowed their faculties to rust
— T. B. Macaulay>
3
: to become reddish brown as if with rust <the leaves slowly rusted>
4
: to be affected with a rust fungus
transitive verb
1
: to cause (a metal) to form rust <keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them
— Shakespeare>
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: to impair or corrode by or as if by time, inactivity, or deleterious use
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: to cause to become reddish brown : turn the color of rust
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