unrust

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verb

To remove rust from a metal object.

Scrabble 6
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Meanings

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

present singular third person unrusts · participle present unrusting · participle past unrusted · past unrusted

  1. uncommonTo 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

Origin

From un- + rust.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

unrust. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrust

MLA

“unrust.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrust. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unrust,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrust.

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