Crossword clues for rusted
rusted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rust \Rust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rusting.] [AS. rustian.]
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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 rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
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Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
(context often rusted-out English) Corroded; steel that has oxidized; covered in rust. v
(en-past of: rust)
WordNet
adj. having accumulated rust; "rusted hinges" [ant: rustless]
Usage examples of "rusted".
A couple of old cars rusted companionably together beneath a moss-hung oak, kept company by a doorless refrigerator lying on its side.
As they pushed their way over the debris and undergrowth that had settled about the ruins, they came upon many rusted skeletons of things that had once been like themselves.
And toward the outskirts of the city they crossed over an immense scrap heap where thousands of the shattered and rusted bodies lay.
Now there were only X-120, his two crippled comrades, the heaps of rusted steel, and the leaning, crumbling towers.
When the unlocked door was discovered the next morning, it would seem only as if a rusted lock had finally given way.
No shutters covered its windows, its single door, half-rotted away, hung precariously from rusted hinges.
A servant lifted the spear and attempted to replace it, but the metal hand was so badly rusted that it would not hold.
The metal door on the wall opposite was standing open, and Jill could see moonlight playing across a brick wall just past the rusted hinges.
The handcart was made of splintered, fragile wood that was held to uncertain unity by bent, rusted nails and with lashings of thin, frayed, black twine.
Frederickson demonstrated his words with graphic movements of the rusted pincers.
The jaws, somewhat battered and rusted, were saw-toothed for better purchase.
He jumped the rusted cogs of the sluice-gear and steadied himself with a hand on the fortress wall.
Like all the full moons that summer, they were oversized, rusted with a strange luminosity.
Nothing else happened, and after helping her to her feet, I poked about with the sword and picked up the offending abutment: it felt like a torch stanchion, but was so rusted it broke in two when I rubbed it.
The spokes of iron were rusted, but the gold and jewelled bands glittered like constellations.