encrust
verb (used with object)
to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
had encrusted
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past perfectof encrust.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Next Munch ditched the literary symbolism of the '90s which had encrusted his early works.
From Time Magazine Archive
Legend had encrusted "Old Mac's" career; few knew the man himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, if it had not wholly changed his real self, it had encrusted him with that hardness and roughness of exterior which he turned instinctively to the world.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville
A light snow covered the ground, and the Frost King had encrusted it with thousands of glittering diamonds.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
Love of self and the world had encrusted it with indifference toward others, but the crust was now broken through.
From Finger Posts on the Way of Life by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
