rust

rust is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
4. noun. A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
5. noun. Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
6. noun. Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
7. intransitive verb. To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
8. intransitive verb. To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
9. intransitive verb. To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
10. transitive verb. To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
11. transitive verb. To impair by time and inactivity.
12. noun. any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
13. noun. the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water

    Synonyms: rusting

14. noun. a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
15. noun. a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
16. verb. become coated with oxide
17. verb. become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid

    "The metal corroded"

    "The pipes rusted"

    Synonyms: corrode

18. verb. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

    "The acid corroded the metal"

    "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

    Synonyms: corrode, eat

19. adjective. of the brown color of rust

    Synonyms: rusty

Synonyms

rusting, corrode, eat, rusty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rust:

ruts

Common word forms

rusts, rusted, rustly, rustful, rusting, rustable, rustless

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