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Synonyms and Antonyms of rusting
- The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house.
corroding, oxidizing, reacting
crumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, dilapidating, sinking, withering
breaking down, corrupting, decaying, decomposing, degrading, disintegrating, dissolving, festering, fouling, moldering, molding, perishing [chiefly British], putrefying, rotting, spoiling
biting (at), eating, eroding, fretting, gnawing, nibbling, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)
souring, turning, turning off [British]
contaminating, defiling, polluting, tainting
drooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting
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