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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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
- 4noun
A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
- 5noun
Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
- 6noun
Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
- 7intransitive verb
To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
- 8intransitive verb
To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
- 9intransitive verb
To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
- 11transitive verb
To impair by time and inactivity.
- 12noun
any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
- 13noun
the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
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- 14noun
a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- 15noun
a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- 16verb
become coated with oxide
- 17verb
become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
"The metal corroded"
"The pipes rusted"
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- 18verb
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"
- 19adjective
of the brown color of rust
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