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• v  become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
  The pipes rusted
• v  cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
  The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink
• v  become coated with oxide
• a  having accumulated rust
  rusted hinges

• An abandoned tugboat here; there, a beached paddle steamer stripped of its metal sides to a rusted skeleton; several abandoned palm oil factories, their roofs caved in, their walls .
• Situated more than 800 miles from the sea and more than 900 miles from the power center of Peking, Chongqing could easily have come to resemble a rusted hulk aground in an urban .
• But while the Gas Works Park includes a big rusted factory, the surrounding greenery doesn't much engage the thing, which stands more or less on its own on a grassy plain.

• corrode
• rust
• eat

• rustless

News & Articles

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• Abandoned oil wells surface as a threat of water pollution
  LULING — Amid the dry weeds on a 470-acre ranch here, a rusted head of steel pokes up, a vestige of an oil well abandoned decades ago. Across the field stand two huge, old wooden oil tanks, one of them tilting like a smokestack on the Titanic.
  June 13, 2013 - The San Angelo Standard-Times
• City reps take tour of projects
  Pointing to a rusted, elevated metal walkway in a vehicle wash bay at the Public Works building, Hut ...
  June 12, 2013 - Hutchinson News
• Time, vandalism and neglect leave downtown Birmingham monuments in disrepair
  A walk through downtown parks and a closer look at the statues shows areas needing repair. They include rusted and corroded bases of Kelly Ingram monuments and missing plaques identifying various displays.
  June 12, 2013 - Birmingham News