encrust

Even the most successful elections later this year cannot possibly scrub away decades of encrusted corruption and inaction.

They are there, they sit there, these canvases by Cy Twombly that seem to be encrusted in the bricks of the walls.

One of them even now, still lifts its encrusted head to the weather.

Her deck, and indeed every uncovered part of the Livorno, was encrusted in the droppings of multitudinous sea-fowl.