Activity keeps the mind from rusting.
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Rusting
Synonyms for "rusting" (18 found)
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Noun(5 words)
Related words (9)
Noun(9 words)
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More general
11 entrieschemical processcorrodingcorrosiondeclinedegradationdeteriorationerosionmetaphorical deteriorationoxidationoxidisationoxidization
More specific
18 entriescorrosion productcrevice corrosioncrevice rustingcultural stagnationfunctional declineinstitutional declineobsolescenceorganizational decayoxide scalepitting corrosionpitting rustingrust layerrusting memoryrusting of skillsstructural decaysurface rust
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Collocations
13 entriesaccelerated rustingcrevice rustingiron rustingpitting rustingrusting infrastructurerusting ironrusting metalrusting processrusting raterusting steelsurface rustsurface rustinguniform rusting
Inflections
5 entriesDerivations
5 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
In the shadow of sleek new expressways and gleaming high-rise buildings sit wooden shacks with rusting corrugated iron roofs and festering open sewers.
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The "Scorpion," a Soviet-built submarine that tracked U.S. vessels across the Pacific Ocean during the Cold War is slowly rusting in Long Beach harbor.
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An example will best make the matter clear, and throw light, perhaps, on many cases of apparently mysterious rustings.
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