rusts

verb

present tense third-person singular of rust
as in rots
to form rust The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house.

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Recent Examples of rusts The red planet owes its distinctive hue to an oxidizing process that rusts iron present in the rocks and dust of Mars. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rusts
  1. rots
  2. decomposes
  3. decays
  4. corrodes
  5. oxidizes
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  • Medicine shortages have worsened and food rots in fridges without power.
    — Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Parents used to tell their children that television rots the brain; now it’s considered a medium for legitimate art.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of rots
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  • Named for the Frenchman Joseph Fourier, the Fourier transform decomposes any function into a set of simple waves, each with a different frequency, or tone.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The research team enabled a room-temperature, four-electron chemical reaction path that forms and decomposes lithium oxide, which expands available energy storage.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
Definition of decomposes
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  • Rituals are performed, oaths proposed and broken, and tensions escalate as the unburied body decays.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Control concentrated in one person dies with that person, decays with that person's judgment, and converts to cash the day that person takes a hard enough offer.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of decays
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  • According to Con Ed, the top cause of manhole fires is the salt used to treat snow, which corrodes electrical wires.
    — Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • From that moment suspicion corrodes old loyalties, and the village’s Muslims are evacuated to a refugee camp for transport to Pakistan.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Definition of corrodes
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  • Peroxide oxidizes and breaks down the chemical bonds that color stains.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • While the electron travels to the cathode to reduce carbon dioxide, the remaining hole simultaneously oxidizes the biomass molecule 5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furoic acid (HMFA), thereby executing two distinct chemical upgrades at the same time.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
Definition of oxidizes

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