encrust

[en-kruhst]

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verb (used with or without object)

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Related Words for encrust

stuff, cover, fill, sully, smear, blacken, smudge, quilt, overlay, wad, bush, face, reinforce, sheath, panel, incrust, wainscot, layer, scale, enamel

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Historical Examples of encrust

You think this, and are ready to encrust yourself with what is conventional and practical.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
Jack London
Chatterton took great pains to encrust his gold with verd-antique; it requires little to remove the green rubbish from the coin.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII.
Various
In spite of daily care, very hard water will encrust the china.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping
Elizabeth Hale Gilman
They constitute the greater number by far of the hard minerals which encrust the terrestrial globe.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
Poetry 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 Landor

British Dictionary definitions for encrust

encrust

incrust

verb

(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 Formsencrustation or incrustation, noun

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Word Origin and History for encrust

1640s, from French incruster, from Latin incrustare "to cover with crust," from in- (see in- (2)) + crusta (see crust). Related: Encrusted; encrusting.