encrust
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
to form into a crust.
to deposit as a crust.
to form a crust: They scraped off the barnacles that always encrusted on the ship's hull.
Origin of encrust
1- Also in·crust [in-kruhst] /ɪnˈkrʌst/ .
Other words from encrust
- en·crust·ant, adjective, noun
- non·en·crust·ing, adjective, noun
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How to use encrust in a sentence
The palm-sized find was metallic, but so dirt-encrusted he couldn’t make out what it was.
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Following a seaside holiday, Marcus Samuel came up with the idea of selling shell-encrusted boxes as souvenirs.
The worst moments, of course, are those few seconds between taking off all your ice-encrusted layers and stepping into that life-changing shower.
Among the prizes for grabs include a year of free stays at the luxury Shangri-La Hotels, a vintage diamond-encrusted Rolex, rare tea leaves that legend says once cured an emperor’s ailing mother and health insurance.
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They constitute the greater number by far of the hard minerals which encrust the terrestrial globe.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UrePoetry has no golden mean; mediocrity here is of another metal, which Voltaire, however, had skill enough to encrust and polish.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage LandorSome marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime not only encrust rocks but give rise to sheets of submarine limestone.
A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it.
A Girl Among the Anarchists | Isabel MeredithCoral limestones encrust the lower slopes of these islands and do not attain a greater thickness than 150 feet.
The Solomon Islands and Their Natives | H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy
British Dictionary definitions for encrust
incrust
/ (ɪnˈkrʌst) /
(tr) to cover or overlay with or as with a crust or hard coating
to form or cause to form a crust or hard coating
(tr) to decorate lavishly, as with jewels
Derived forms of encrust
- encrustation or incrustation, noun
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