Crossword-Solution: RUST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rust | n. | The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion. |
| Rust | n. | A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish. |
| Rust | n. | That which resembles rust in appearance or effects. |
| Rust | n. | A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below. |
| Rust | n. | Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat. |
| Rust | n. | Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. |
| Rust | v. i. | To contract rust; to be or become oxidized. |
| Rust | v. i. | To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants. |
| Rust | v. i. | To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. |
| Rust | v. t. | To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind. |
| Rust | v. t. | To impair by time and inactivity. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RUST | anagram | RSTU, RUTS, STUR, TURS, URTS |
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Sentences with RUST (5)
These supplied material for petty activity to a mind that would otherwise have been eaten up with rust.
Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.
The brown scales, too, had evidently undergone rigid discipline, in an unavailing effort to rub off the rust, which, alas! had eaten through and through their substance.
After a little search he located the clean-picked bones of his late adversary, and close by, partly buried beneath the fallen leaves, he found the knife, now red with rust from its exposure to the dampness of the ground and from the dried blood of the gorilla.
This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, “Who are they?” Jerry, the messenger, who had made his own observations, in his own manner, and who had been sucking the rust off his fingers in his absorption, stretched his neck to hear who they were.
Quotes with RUST (3)
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, w…
Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 384 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).