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unrust

unrust verb: to remove rust from a metal object.

Verb

unrust (third-person singular simple present unrusts, present participle unrusting, simple past and past participle unrusted)

  1. (uncommon) To remove rust from a metal object.
    • Miss Mattie started a roaring fire, and everyone hung up the wet clothes while the cat played, tea water boiled, and the king planned how to unrust his knights.1995, Lee Ebler, “The Fist Wet Clothes Drying Party”, in Editors of Highlights for Children, editor, Frog For a Day and Other Fanciful Adventure Stories, →ISBN, page 17

Forms of unrust

third-person singular presentunrusts
present participleunrusting
past participleunrusted
pastunrusted

Origin of unrust

From un- + rust.

Questions about unrust

What does unrust mean?
Unrust means to remove rust from a metal object.
What part of speech is unrust?
Unrust is a verb.
What is the past tense of unrust?
The past tense of unrust is unrusted.

Words near unrust in the dictionary

  1. unrupturable
  2. unruptured
  3. unrural
  4. unrushed
  5. unrussian
  6. unrust
  7. unrustable
  8. unrusted
  9. unrustic
  10. unrusticated
  11. unrusting

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