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Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
Answer for the clue "Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid ", 7 letters:
rusting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water [syn: rust ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of rust English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rust \Rust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rusted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rusting .] [AS. rustian.] To contract rust; to be or become oxidized. If gold ruste, what shall iron do? --Chaucer. Our armors now may rust. --Dryden. To be affected with the parasitic fungus called ...
Usage examples of rusting.
Jammed against the back of this, so that their doors met, was a rusting double-wide trailer.
Upturned, this detached, rusting dinosaur-skull of a bucket let in daylight through the four foot prongs of its teeth while keeping the heat and possibly the radiation of the atomic sun out.
Breathing through her mouth to avoid the worst of the stench, she hurried to the back of the hall and turned right, down a short, tight passage that dead ended at a rusting metal door.
Ford Taurus rental up to her aging blue Honda Civic with the Nurses Make It Better sticker on its rusting bumper.
There were pipes and cables, and broken plastic and metal conduits hanging everywhere, like twentieth century stalactites, and the floor was littered with rusting levers, nuts and bolts, pistons and jacks and metallic scrap of every kind, size, and description.
Upturned, this detached, rusting dinosaur-skull of a bucket let in daylight through the fourfoot prongs of its teeth while keeping the heat and possibly the radiation of the atomic sun out.
He gazed with dull eyes at the gloomy street, debris-littered, with clogged sewers and rusting, flat-tired automobiles, with shabby loiterers and tallow lamps burning atop the electric streetlight standards.
The front door was faded by the relentless sun, and in places the clapboards were peeling back, the nails rusting and coming loose.
A massive, rusting pipeline stalked away on spindly trestles across the landscape.
But it was a petrolandscape, littered by oily lakes, pipelines, and rusting derricks.
I walked inside, past barriers that no longer raised, tollbooths with broken glass and rusting ticket machines.