rusted

verb

past tense of rust
as in rotted
to form rust The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house.

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Recent Examples of rusted Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves. — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 This route makes the most sense for fans that have rusted all over. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 June 2026 Be sure that the jars are free of nicks and cracks, and the lids aren't dented or rusted. — Martha Stewart, 12 June 2026 My French and Dutch rusted like old bicycles. — Joseph O’Neill, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 This type of coverage typically replaces car parts that have rusted through. — Kate Tully Ellsworth, USA Today, 18 May 2026 Six cans of evaporated milk were rusted enough to draw Stop Sales. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Some reels were rusted and misshapen, pieces of nitrate had crumbled, and other strips were stuck together. — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026 If cans have rusted or burst seams, throw them out right away. — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rusted
  1. rotted
  2. decomposed
  3. decayed
  4. corroded
Verb
  • The missing 14-year-old’s body rotted for weeks until it was found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard last September, severed at the limbs and stuffed into black plastic bags, according to medical examiner’s records and court filings.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • While the timber has long since rotted away, the posts lined up to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice — in the same way as Stonehenge.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Definition of rotted
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  • The victim was so badly decomposed, the medical examiner couldn’t even estimate her age or ethnicity.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Its recruit and redeploy stages require roles decomposed into explicit tasks—making what AI can augment answerable task by task.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of decomposed
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  • The resulting collisions formed excited compound nuclei that decayed through multiple gamma-ray steps.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of decayed
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  • Today, the town’s Victorian grandeur is rotting and crumbling away, its cast-iron piers corroded by sea salt.
    — George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Olewack warns that older plumbing materials, such as cast iron, may be corroded and leaking, and that most homeowners choose to replace these older materials with PVC.
    — Kamron Sanders, The Spruce, 18 July 2026
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