encrust
encrust
Definition
en·crust (en krust′)
transitive verb
- to cover with or as with a crust, or hard coating
- to decorate elaborately, esp. with gems
intransitive verb
to form a crust
encrust
Usage Examples
Object
- barnacle: Here you can see the barnacle encrusted Alum Bay wooden gun carriage wheel brought up by divers in 2002.
- algae: Look for them in March/April in the shallow pools lined with pink encrusting stony algae.
- lichen: You will arrive at an imposing lichen encrusted gateway.
- jewel: Make your own Oriental style dagger inspired by the jewel encrusted ones in the Oriental Armories.
- diamond: You wouldn't wear a diamond encrusted Rolex to play sports now would you?
- gem: Annie Laurie specializes in Brides and Maids tiaras and head-dresses, from the simple floral head band to the gem encrusted tiara.
Preposition: with
- jewel: Tiaras consisted usually of a curved metal band with a central raised piece encrusted with jewels.
- coral: The island is in a regular current stream and is heavily encrusted with soft corals.
- diamond: Thieves stole a gold Rolex watch worth £ 40,000 and had it encrusted with diamonds for resale.
- stone: I was told that inside even the walls were encrusted with precious stones.
- flower: The window, encrusted with frosty flowers, concealed the tangle of whispering streets knotted together around the graveyard.
- life: Both caves are encrusted with life on their vertical walls with an abundance of other sea life to be found.
Modifying Another Word
- heavily: This occurs above the weak shoulder, below which the vessel is heavily encrusted with a thick deposit which obscures much of the surface.
- often: Both types are often encrusted with a black deposit which visually certainly seems likely to have been formed by burnt fat.
- so: The stent could not be removed as it was so encrusted.
- now: Wrecks A Russian destroyer was sunk off Cayman Brac in 1996 and is now encrusted with life.
- thickly: His beds vary: elegant or spartan, thickly encrusted with paint, or executed in what seems to have been a fiery haste.
- totally: The wreck is very popular with photographers as it is totally encrusted in anemone, gorgonians and corals.
Preposition: in
Browse dictionary entries near encrust
- encroachment
- encroach
- encrinite
- encrimson
- encouraging
- encouragement
- encouraged
- encourage
- encounter
- encore
- encrustation
- encrypt
- encryption
- Encryption or Encipher
- enculturate
- encumber
- encumbrance
- encumbrancer
- ency
- -ency
