encrust

Even the most successful elections later this year cannot possibly scrub away decades of encrusted corruption and inaction.
Egypt's Leaderless Revolution|Anne-Marie Slaughter|February 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
They are there, they sit there, these canvases by Cy Twombly that seem to be encrusted in the bricks of the walls.
Treasures From the Pinault Collection|Bernard-Henri Lévy|June 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
One of them even now, still lifts its encrusted head to the weather.
A Village of Vagabonds|F. Berkeley Smith
Her deck, and indeed every uncovered part of the Livorno, was encrusted in the droppings of multitudinous sea-fowl.
The Record of Nicholas Freydon|A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

This thing-that-slew was but a length of rotting root, frozen at the end with clay and encrusted ice.
The Beginning|Henry Hasse
It was a small box, made after a fashion of long years ago, and its tops and sides were encrusted with tiny shells.
Madge Morton's Victory|Amy D.V. Chalmers
The Egyptian syenite was encrusted with the precious green marbles of Numidia.
The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. II (of II)|Walter M. Chandler

British Dictionary definitions for encrusted

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

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incrust

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