rust
🇺🇸
/rʌst/
🇬🇧
/rʌst/
noun
R
a reddish-brown coating that forms on metal when it gets wet and air touches it
The old bicycle had a lot of rust on its frame.
R
a plant sickness that makes red-brown spots, or the tiny living thing that causes it
The wheat plants got rust from the fungus in the soil.
verb
R
when metal gets covered with rust, or when something makes metal get rust
If you leave metal tools outside, they will rust in the rain.
translation
a reddish-brown coating that forms on metal when it gets wet and air touches it; a plant sickness that makes red-brown spots, or the tiny living thing that causes it
when metal gets covered with rust, or when something makes metal get rust
Word Forms
3rd Present
rusts
Progressive
rusting
Past
rusted
Perfect
rusted
Plural
rusts