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- adjective Corroded; steel that has oxidized; covered in
rust . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rust .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having accumulated rust
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Examples
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Caa should stick to bringing in rusted out fords and selling them as reconditioned mercedes.
To CAA or Not To CAA? Tyler 2009
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“He showed me this knife that was all rusted from the wet plaster, but the rust was also bleeding — almost blossoming through the paint,” recalled Johnny.
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Not a particularly attractive town, it's the kind of town whose motto might as well be "Get me outta Dodge," not unlike those desperate and bleakly futureless burgs of the Midwest whose economies are fueled by methamphetamine factories in rusted trailers and the promise of a new prison.
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Soft drinks for us kids, in rusted-cap bottles with ice clustered in the narrow necks.
HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006 Maggie Jochild 2007
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Not a particularly attractive town, it's the kind of town whose motto might as well be "Get me outta Dodge," not unlike those desperate and bleakly futureless burgs of the Midwest whose economies are fueled by methamphetamine factories in rusted trailers and the promise of a new prison.
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The man who built it had flung away his dagger, and already his sword rusted in its scabbard in that little house in Assisi; he conquered the world by love.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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All were copiously smeared with blood, while each wore a necklace of human teeth, and carried a heavy broad-bladed sword rusted by the blood of former victims.
The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895
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Now she lives without running water in the middle of the northern Ontario bush, her only shelter a one-room shed, heated by a wood-burning stove that could better be described as a rusted old barrel with a tin chimney.
Thestar.com - Home Page Oakland Ross 2011
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The victories of Michael were achieved by his lieutenants; his sword rusted in the palace; and, in the transactions of the emperor with the popes and the king of Naples, his political acts were stained with cruelty and fraud.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The victories of Michael were achieved by his lieutenants; his sword rusted in the palace; and, in the transactions of the emperor with the popes and the king of Naples, his political acts were stained with cruelty and fraud.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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