Word Meanings - RUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RUST)

• Corrode
• Eat
• rust
• gnaw
• canker
• wear
• crumble

Related words: (words related to RUST)

• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• CANKEREDLY
  Fretfully; spitefully.
• CANKER
  A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in
• CANKERWORM
  The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late
• CANKERED
  1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.
• CANKER RASH
  A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
• CANKER BLOOM
  The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
• CRUMBLE
  To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.
• CORRODE
  1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution.
• CANKERY
  1. Like a canker; full of canker. 2. Surly; sore; malignant.
• CANKER FLY
  A fly that preys on fruit.
• CANKEROUS
  Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.
• CANKER BLOSSOM
  That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.
• CANKER-BIT
  Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
• WATER CANKER
  See 1
• ENCANKER
  To canker.