encrust

[ en-kruhst ]

/ ɛnˈkrʌst /

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verb (used with object)

to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.

to form into a crust.

to deposit as a crust.

verb (used without object)

to form a crust: They scraped off the barnacles that always encrusted on the ship's hull.

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[in-kruhst] /ɪnˈkrʌst/ .

Origin of encrust

First recorded in 1635–45 for incrust and 1710–20 for encrust; from Old French encrouster, incrouster, from Latin incrustāre “to cover with a layer, rind, or crust; daub”; see origin at en-¹, crust

OTHER WORDS FROM encrust

en·crust·ant, adjective, nounnon·en·crust·ing, adjective, noun

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How to use encrust in a sentence

So Gard Otis was puzzled to find strange, brown spots the size of poppy seeds encrusting beehives in Vietnam, a country in southeast Asia.
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The centerpiece of the design is a 52-carat ruby, dangling from a diamond encrusted bow.
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Surely this baby will eat the same fresh chicken and pea mush as his father, complete with a diamond-encrusted spoon.
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Models wore beaded headpieces with lattice-work and pearl-encrusted boots.
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All I took with me was a palate encrusted with salt and 510 calories.
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A bra encrusted in 142 carats of diamonds, pearls, and other precious stones set in gold, to be exact.
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The bottom was very foul, covered with long streamers of slimy grass and encrusted with barnacles.
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We see columns encrusted with little bits of many-coloured looking-glass, like those we saw in Rangoon.
Round the Wonderful World|G. E. Mitton
Some of the former's yarns are very entertaining, but too richly encrusted with words not in the dictionary to reproduce.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V.|Erskine Childers
In front of her was a damsel bearing in baldric a great sword with haft of emerald and tassels of jewel-encrusted gold.
The Science of Fairy Tales|Edwin Sidney Hartland
The man who fed was weary, and Tess could see that the red nape of his neck was encrusted with dirt and husks.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy

British Dictionary definitions for encrust

encrust

incrust

/ (ɪnˈkrʌst) /

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 forms of encrust

encrustation or incrustation, noun

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encrust

Origin of encrust

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British Dictionary definitions for encrust

incrust

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