encrust
verb (used with object)
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
had been encrusting
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past perfect progressiveof encrust.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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I gradually flung off the hardness that my late life of recklessness had been encrusting upon my heart.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
