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    1. There are many natural fungicides that are used to control Downey Mildew, Rust, Black Spot, Powdery Mildew and other exotic diseases, but by now you should get the idea that the basis for regaining the health of the roses and other plants is to regain the health of the soil


    2. rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for


    3. Despite years of neglect made visible by thin, almost transparent patches of rust and jaggedly flaking automotive paint, the front wing of the little Austin Metro barely flexed under heel


    4. From the passageway the digitally enhanced voice of Citizen Marat burst into life once more, corroding the moment of doubt into a thousand flakes of brittle rust


    5. Behind the stone pillared frame and rust brown hinges,


    6. Plaster hangs on walls, stained red with the rust of long hammered nails,


    7. machine skeletons rust in the shaved ground,


    8. Dressed in swanky velveteen of burgundy and rust, her windows were curtained from top to bottom, giving a distant effect of luxurious chic


    9. actually, he is the chairperson of the main temple 1 rust


    10. I stood transfixed in sadness as it all fell into place and saw everything she'd tried to prove, had lived for, had turned to dust and rust

    11. eaves dripped rust from the corroded iron guttering that hung to the


    12. There are hundreds of metal tines on a large, circular wheel, and the entire contraption is pitted and brown with rust


    13. 20But lay up for you treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and


    14. discourage rust, and painted in olive drab camouflage colours


    15. The enamel coating on the fridge has given up the ghost and brown chips of rust show through the face of the door


    16. heave, rust encrusted iron cracked and gave way


    17. Colours begin to merge, a ragged paint job, primary bright and flecked with rust at the wheel arches


    18. door as evidence of the freshly removed rust


    19. In the first place they were metallic in construction and secondly the pools of rust decking the road side where they had once stood was deemed unsightly


    20. As they are less liable to rust and impurity, they can more easily be kept clean; and the utensils, either of the table or the kitchen, are often, upon that account, more agreeable when made of them

    21. Was it her imagination or was there still a rust colored stain on the blade? A sickening memory of the pain and fear suffused her mind


    22. The evidence of Naud visitation was everywhere in the two systems: moons and planets carelessly mined, automated refineries left here and there to rust and decay on the otherwise nicest real estate, having already clotted the atmospheres and generally made a mess of those worlds and their systems


    23. It was enacted, that the resolution of two-thirds of these creditors in number and value should bind the rust, both with regard to the time which should be allowed to the company for the payment of their debts, and with regard to any other agreement which it might be thought proper to make with them concerning those debts


    24. The entropy of rust had also not yet


    25. Bogie was solid black, and his female counterpart, Bacall, was rust colored


    26. One was that it should never be polished, as the polish would remove the anti-corrosion protection thus causing to box to rust for those lucky enough to be stationed at the coast


    27. Originally it had been painted white but now big red rust stains showed through every surface


    28. They had their way with her and left her where she lay, in a damp place that smelled of metal and rust


    29. While paneled in plates and sheathing of alloy metals of various sizes and textures, the fasteners were ferrous and left huge rust streaks on every seam


    30. As all we build and buy turns to rust?

    31. And when your factories begin to rust


    32. The paint of her freeboard was stained with broad orange rust stripes running over faded, ancient white


    33. Alternating with the rust stripes were black, dripping runs of greasy oil, giving her the overall coloring of a seagoing Bengal tiger


    34. The knife seemed to be made of steel or a similar metal, perhaps even silver, but that could not explain how it had been able to weather time without being reduced to little more than a useless piece of rust


    35. I have loved bloody leaders and rust brick roofs in the sun


    36. welding and bolts along the outer plating were brown with rust


    37. produced another device, less bulky, shinier, and free of rust


    38. Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:


    39. Cause their Consciousness was rust


    40. You could tell that Tapio was the foreman because he drove a Pontiac with no rust

    41. ground, rough and jagged, the red layers of rust smeared across


    42. scratch on the steel blade, only a faint smear of rust


    43. gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment


    44. except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine, for neither when they were molten did they feel it


    45. “Use of my sword brings about wear, tear and rust


    46. and rust of the steel piping that extended the length of its figure,


    47. looking glass, and you shall know that his rust has not been altogether wiped away


    48. When dry blood had turned the water to rust, Mrs


    49. New and rust


    50. Ancient and filled with rust













































    1. were rusted beyond hope of opening, fused together at hinge and at lock, clinging to


    2. On every door a faceplate rusted on


    3. On every door a faceplate rusted on wrought iron runners, closed against the light of real wax candles guttering on stone ledges set into the walls


    4. and the parts having rusted, decayed in the earth,


    5. 'We are coming!' Mama said as his group pushed the rusted metal gate of the


    6. Unlike Reston, it was colorful and in good repair, not gaunt, rusted steel skeletons and crumbly, graffiti-covered concrete covered with moss, kudzu and choke-cherry


    7. Rusted chains and pulleys


    8. A rusted bicycle with two flat tires sat in the


    9. still there—a rusted blue color—but the tracks and railroad ties were missing


    10. No longer able to stand on her own legs, she utilized the bridge's rusted iron railing as a crutch, and with whatever strength she had left she dragged herself across

    11. He removed a rusted bolt from the gate


    12. I wanted to see what I could find in the adjacent gas station before it got dark and stumbled out the front door, barely catching myself against a rusted pole that held up the awning


    13. There were quite a few of those bastards milling around the rusted metal


    14. He remembered clearly how the bridge was barely standing with it’s rusted through metal and cracked cement standings


    15. I walked back into the ticket hall and saw the holes in the roof the advertising signs on the walls were rusted and covered in green growth and most of the brown and green tiles were missing


    16. "And if you hadn't given me the box, it might have rusted away in that


    17. For interest sake that Army post mortem crocodile had the remains of a dead terrorist inside him and we all ran away when a rusted hand grenade fell out


    18. "It's only rusted 'ere and there, ain't it? It'll be fine, yer'll see


    19. At the parking lot, I sat carefully on the rusted trunk of Mia"s old Honda Civic


    20. He was usually parked out in front waiting for Cassandra in his blue rusted out Cadillac

    21. It’s so dark I can barely see them, but when I stare at the huge, rusted supports holding the wheel in place, I see the rungs of a ladder


    22. Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size


    23. It was rusted and corroded, but


    24. they saw the rusted metal doorway had been chained by thick


    25. Cry through the rusted lock of love


    26. narrow hallway of the small bungalow, its rusted hinges creaking


    27. slabs of the tower’s external wall, draped in parts with rusted


    28. She had been screaming for so long, that by the time she could calm down, her voice was all rusted away


    29. Furthermore, the state trooper took an obviously staged photo of Mike’s sneaker and assorted rusted beer cans which had been along the road for years in front of a post


    30. Our underground oil tanks were rusted but empty

    31. If the pipe is rusted out in parts


    32. If the roof is rusted out and the hole is obvious


    33. Forty-year-old rusted faces that wouldn’t hold paper were replaced with new faces, brush was trimmed, lights were fixed


    34. “Jesus! This thing must have rusted a bit since we were


    35. She came to her senses towards evening when a cold jet of water from the rusted pipe sticking out over the dam, landed on her shoulder


    36. was aging and stranded in rusted colours, ranging from brown to


    37. It had rusted with the years of lying in the wet, and the lid was so tightly fitted down that it was almost impossible to move it


    38. bars (that had since helplessly rusted), which were joined in a


    39. from the ones on the road, but just as rusted and vine laden)


    40. cage would break open once the rusted wire had corroded

    41. I devoted the next couple of days to weakening the rusted


    42. a stocky bot bouncer; his arms rusted and several dents on its


    43. The iron fence was badly rusted, but you could tell that it had once been very fancy


    44. rusted pieces of wire on the fence


    45. Horst pretty well ran the radio store all by himself now, but instead of sitting out of sight at a workbench in some cluttered corner somewhere, trying to recap a rusted grid connector on a radio tube, he was now up front in the showroom with polished shoes, wearing a tie, smelling of after-shave lotion and selling those big receivers with the incredible new hi-fi sound quality


    46. Ignacia laid in bed every night hoping, and not hoping, to hear his rusted wheels rounding on the high wire


    47. The rusted wheels rounded the graveside three times, as if doing victory laps, then scooped up the beauty upon its handlebars, and scaled high up upon the wire


    48. He always parked his old rusted out pickup truck behind the restaurant


    49. hair the color of rusted iron


    50. They seemed to smile at the decay, rusted and old













































    1. The rusting cranes and conveyor belts in the water made a challenging obstacle course


    2. In response, Brazilian space-based weapons bombed the Basran and Chirpol refineries on the gulf, destroying the last rusting remnants of the oil-based jihad


    3. I walked on the white sand, I admired the high blond cliffs surrounding the beach, I passed by the old shipwreck which has been rusting under the sun for decades now


    4. on the cracked plastic bumper of his rusting, once white car


    5. scattering chick down in thin, sticky layers on rusting welds


    6. of rusting refinery conduits,


    7. One by one the aged, rusting nails that


    8. Rusting Rovers and clapped out Citroens


    9. Billy is aware of death, aware of the metallic smell on the breeze, and with little Bex by his side, with the ghost girl in his arms, he sits next to a piece of rusting, fang-toothed farm machinery with a gun barrel pressed against his temple


    10. Beyond that he could see a variety of rooftops and an antenna mounted on a rusting frame

    11. He stared across the estuary and focused on the rusting hull


    12. The dummy was trying get away from us by crossing the river sort of tight rope walking on the lower span of a rusting railway trestle


    13. Her last eighty or ninety years had been spent living in a rusting compartment, doing who knows what, in some second or third rate freight brokerage-cum-impound yard


    14. of the rusting machines and old abandoned shacks, considerably


    15. came to a tall iron barrier in the centre of their path, the rusting


    16. revive the rusting former steel-producing capital of Japan


    17. construction yard, draping heavy rusting beams from their


    18. it continued on beneath a series of huge rusting pipes that arced


    19. Everyone assumed that the rusting hulk of the old ship was somewhere on the surface of Altgeld


    20. Frank carefully leaned over the rusting iron fence and read:

    21. “You’d better,” muttered Ma, her ferret eyes glancing at a rusting old clock on the wall


    22. The bulky form of Ma sat hunched at the steering wheel, her round face set in a grimly determined manner as she parked the rusting machinery behind the line of standing scarecrows


    23. Ma sat at the wheel, her podgy frame dwarfing the rusting machine that she steered to a halt in front of the barn


    24. On the far side of the clearing a rusting corrugated iron shed leaned against a drunkenly askew verandah


    25. There were sacks of compost stacked against one wall, and a row of rusting gardening implements along another


    26. Rough edges and the backs of already rusting hinges protruded


    27. He laughed a lot and slapped Bart on the back as he led them behind rusting heaps of ex pride-and-joys to Hyacinth, who looked about half his original length


    28. The rusting lock gives away easily and silently and the tramp steps inside the garden, pushing the gate back into its frame


    29. A small compost heap surrounded by rusting corrugated iron and covered with fresh weeds from Suzy's gardening efforts sits in the shade of an old apple tree


    30. He moved behind a rusting corrugated iron

    31. I’ve been rusting in the rain so long


    32. I’m tired of rusting in this hard rain


    33. Joey did see a few vehicles, but they looked like they were chewed up and spat out, rusting and moving on wheels


    34. The vessel was twenty-six years old, rusting and should have been retired


    35. had decayed with the passage of time, leaving only the rusting


    36. He squinted into the shadow behind the rusting tractor, the


    37. Four 13 inch First World War guns from the old "Iron Duke" class of battleship were found in Nottingham covered in cobwebs and rusting


    38. At first, it reminded Graisco of a weigh station in the Old West when stagecoach travel had been eclipsed by the arrival of motorcars; when he noticed the three rusting large-bodied cars—one from the fifties, sixties, and seventies—his image of the Old West was shattered only to be replaced by what would once have been called Americana


    39. Floating down to an area of the tarmac that was not illuminated, Nancy hid behind a rusting steel container left near the perimeter fence of the airport and waited for the fuel truck to roll away


    40. By an old man on a rocking chair, unmoved and by an old refrigerator in the yard, nobly rusting away

    41. A rusting barbecue paid testament to the truth that there had been no punters staying here since, well, since never


    42. That same night, far out at sea off the west coast of Cornwall, the 2,000-ton, ocean going, Liberian registered, rusting tramp ship “Hercules”, was boarded


    43. It had long been abandoned, the rusting machinery still sat where the OWG Workers left them


    44. Junk yards ooze with the rusting corpses of innumerable wheeled “conveniences” a year or two too old for their discerning drivers


    45. stepped beneath the dangling chains of a crate precariously hanging from a thread rusting crane


    46. As she turned her head, a large rusting cross immediately repelled her


    47. The supports were cemented into the ground on either side, and there was a huge rusting metal bar that slipped into place to lock it


    48. At first Silas thought it was a hoax meant to taunt him further; it was a drawing of old, rusting human machines grouped, ancient refrigerators by stacks of old car bodies, tires by haphazard piles of rebar


    49. Could it actually survive that long without rusting away to nothing but dust?”


    50. The rusting of the leaves or the olive branches, the grass swaying and rustling in the wind, the barking of the village dogs, and the ubiquitous large shadows formed by the trees was what made the arrival of this hour so spine chilling



























    1. Sadly, their condition by then was not very good due to damage from candle soot and expectedly, some areas had succumbed to damp, but I was amazed at the depth of the ochre, the rusts and the blues, all given life by the sunbeams streaming in through the apsidal windows


    2. Who wears out last season's shoe when you heed the call of new and improved? Where rusts the slums of our passing fancies?


    3. That is the reason why iron rusts


    4. "It is so strange that iron rusts


    5. “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind


    6. Behind the fruitfulness are men of understanding and knowledge and skill, men who experiment with seed, endlessly developing the techniques for greater crops of plants whose roots will resist the million enemies of the earth: the molds, the insects, the rusts, the blights


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    Synonyms for "rust"

    rust rust fungus rusting corrode eat rust-brown rusty oxidation corrosion tarnish incrustation reddish-brown russet brown reddish red brownish-red oxidise oxidize degenerate decompose decay erode

    "rust" definitions

    a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture


    a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi


    the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water


    any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants


    become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid


    cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid


    become coated with oxide


    of the brown color of rust