- to cover with or as with a crust, or hard coating
- to decorate elaborately, esp. with gems
Origin of encrust
Old French encrouster from Classical Latin incrustare: see in- and crust to form a crust
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encrust
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transitive verb
en·crust·ed, en·crust·ing, en·crusts, also in·crust·ed or in·crust·ing or in·crusts- To cover or coat with or as if with a crust: tires encrusted with dried mud; legalities that were encrusted with tradition.
- To decorate by inlaying or overlaying with a contrasting material: encrust wood paneling with ivory.
Origin of encrust
Possibly from French incruster from Latin incrustāre in- on ; see en- 1. crusta crust ; see kreus- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present encrusts, present participle encrusting, simple past and past participle encrusted)
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Sentence Examples
- A very superior kind, obtained by allowing the juice to encrust pieces of wood or straws inserted in the cuts, is called manna a cannolo.
- The best crystallized specimens of any mica are afforded by the small brilliant crystals of biotite, which encrust cavities in the limestone blocks ejected from Monte Somma, Vesuvius.
- Lumps of manganese oxide, with a black, shining outer surface, are also characteristic of this deposit, and frequently encrust pieces of pumice or animal remains.