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rust off

rust off verb: to come apart, from the process of rusting.

Verb

rust off (third-person singular simple present rusts off, present participle rusting off, simple past and past participle rusted off)

  1. (intransitive) to come apart, from the process of rusting.

Forms of rust off

third-person singular presentrusts off
present participlerusting off
past participlerusted off
pastrusted off

Questions about rust off

What does rust off mean?
Rust off means to come apart, from the process of rusting.
What part of speech is rust off?
Rust off is a verb.
What is the past tense of rust off?
The past tense of rust off is rusted off.

Words near rust off in the dictionary

  1. rust fungus
  2. rust joint
  3. rust joints
  4. rust mite
  5. rust mites
  6. rust off
  7. rust out
  8. rust through
  9. rust-belt
  10. rust-belts
  11. rust-bucket

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