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encrust

[ en-kruhst ]

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verb (used with object)

to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
to form into a crust.
to deposit as a crust.

verb (used without object)

to form a crust:
They scraped off the barnacles that always encrusted on the ship's hull.

encrust

/ 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

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Derived Forms

ˌencrusˈtation, noun

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Other Words From

en·crustant adjective noun
nonen·crusting adjective noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of encrust¹

First recorded in 1635–45 for incrust and 1710–20 for encrust; from Old French encrouster, incrouster, from Latin incrustāre “to cover with a layer, rind, or crust; daub”; en- ¹, crust

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Example Sentences

They constitute the greater number by far of the hard minerals which encrust the terrestrial globe.

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Poetry has no golden mean; mediocrity here is of another metal, which Voltaire, however, had skill enough to encrust and polish.

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Some marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime not only encrust rocks but give rise to sheets of submarine limestone.

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A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it.

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Coral limestones encrust the lower slopes of these islands and do not attain a greater thickness than 150 feet.

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