Definition of Rusted

1. Adjective. Having accumulated rust. "Rusted hinges"

Similar to: Rusty
Antonyms: Rustless

Definition of Rusted

1. Adjective. (often rusted-out) Corroded; steel that has oxidized; covered in rust. ¹

2. Verb. (past of rust) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rusted

1. rust [v] - See also: rust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusted

russifying
russophobia
russula
rust
rust-free
rust fungi
rust fungus
rust inhibitor
rust mite
rust off
rustable
rustbelt
rustbelts
rustbucket
rustbuckets
rusted (current term)
rustenburgite
rustful
rustic
rustical
rusticality
rustically
rusticalness
rusticals
rusticate
rusticated
rusticates
rusticating
rustication
rustications

Literary usage of Rusted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cupola Furnace: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management by Edward Kirk (1903)
"The lightest loss was in the new shot and the heaviest in the very small rusted shot. These tests showed that rusted shot produced a hard iron, ..."

2. The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry edited by Edward Hart (1891)
"LOSS OF CARBON IN rusted PIG IRON. Weighed samples having stood in beakers until much rusted, were analyzed and gave the following results for total carbon ..."

3. Cupola Furnance: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of by Edward Kirk (1899)
"Molten iron explodes when poured into mud or brought in contact with wet rusted scrap, but does not explode when poured into deep or clean water. ..."

4. Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt (2005)
"The crumbling barn he passed, the unattended fields, a rusted tractor, half on the road, that looked as though it had been there for years, told him all he ..."

5. The Beginner in Poultry: The Zest and the Profit in Poultry Growing by Carolyn Syron Valentine (1912)
"rusted While in the Roll It is a common belief, and we hear frequent testimony, that the wire manufactured twenty years ago or more resisted corrosion far ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1830)
"Coysevox died at Paris, in 1720, in the 80th year of his age. body and limbs are mi-rusted with a hard, compact shell. Of the seuse of taste, ..."

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