encrust
verb (used with object)
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
encrusts
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present tense formof encrust (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A black sponge that encrusts tidal pool rocks in southern Japan, Halichondria okadai, produced a drug, now marketed as Halaven, to treat late-stage breast cancer.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2022
Moss encrusts the walls, rainwater drips down rusted steel beams, flimsy lights glow yellow in dark interiors.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2014
Unlike the atmospheric junk, which simply encrusts the surface, mercury seeps into microscopic flaws in the cylinders’ surfaces created by the polishing process.
From Economist ● Jan. 10, 2013
A white-frost fog blots out everything at fifty yards, and a white sugary frost encrusts the grass.
From With Rimington by L. March Phillipps
The weather in the wintertime is generally bright and clear; sometimes there are fogs, and hoar frost, which encrusts the trees with the most beautiful crystals: parhelia and aurora borealis are frequently seen.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
