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单词 accrust
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accrustv.

Brit. /əˈkrʌst/, U.S. /əˈkrəst/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: ac- prefix, Latin crusta.
Etymology: < ac- prefix + classical Latin crusta hard surface (see crust n.). Compare earlier encrust v.
rare.
1. transitive. To encrust, to cover with a crust; to crust over.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > encrust
barken1513
crust1545
impaste1548
incrustate1570
befur1581
scurf1599
overcrust1603
cake1609
imbake1632
bark1633
encrusta1691
becrust1830
accrust1842
overscurf1881
1842 Pract. Mag. 1 262/1 Where the volcanic agency is active,..we have frequent tracts of desert thankless soil, accrusted with salts, and tainted by vapours fatal to germination.
1978 Protoplasma 97 234 The hydrophobic material which accrusts the inner face of the ridges.
2. intransitive. To become hardened or rigid. (figurative in quot.) Obsolete.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > become hard [verb (intransitive)]
hardeOE
hardenc1350
obdure1609
indurate1626
obdurate1659
accrust1881
1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell x, in Good Words Mar. 148/2 Her name [sc. Sporetta] had begun to be ‘Spotterer’ already; and now as the polystigmatic view deepened, her name accrusted finally to the positive form of ‘Spotty’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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