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Meanings of rust away in English

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Usage of rust away in English
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Even if that never happened, they agree, eventually the spillway gates would rust away.
The world without us
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I'd rather rust away than wear myself down to nothing by working too hard.
Bardisms
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These are buildings that were once bustling, but are now left to rust away.
Radio NZ
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It seemed to be his miserable destiny to rust away, useless, unbefriended, and forgotten.
Seekers after God
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Now I am feeble, can no longer serve; Unused my weapons rust away at home.
Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
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It wasn't as if he'd started to rust away.
The Irish Times
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Arms buried in the ground will rust away.
The Irish Times
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Spain, suspending the sword until Virginia "will fall of itselfe," saw that sword rust away.
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
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Brambles and wild grapevines are snaking around steel gas pipes, which will rust away before another century goes by.
The world without us
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The cars are actually quite rare as they were so badly made they tended to rust away and get scrapped.
Radio NZ
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Under atmospheric influences the iron would rapidly oxidize and rust away, coloring the adjacent soil with red oxide of iron.
Arizona Sketches
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It'd be a shame for the Navy's new pickup truck of the sea to rust away for lack of Tru-Kote.
Wired
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I discovered, for instance, that iron fence posts rust away in an acid soil; that one must use cedar or oak.
Growing Nuts in the North / A Personal Story of the Author's Exp...
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He can also get us a BMP-2 turret except there's no navalized version and the thing would rust away before our eyes.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Had been scraping the rust away;
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 / Devoted To...
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Some speculate that it was to be converted into a restaurant but the owner ran out of money and left it to rust away.
News.com.au
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