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encrusteden‧crust‧ed /ɪnˈkrʌstɪd/ adjective   - Aged about ten months, he sports a poorly, red button of a nose, barnacled with encrusted snot.
- An encrusted gash scarred his forehead, and one side of his face was swollen with dying yellow bruises.
- Bellowing, the thing was trying to reach over the stair-rail with its other encrusted, decomposing claw.
- It lashed out at its non-existent attacker, groping through the plaster-dust with encrusted, mutated talons.
- Many had strings of beads attached to their already encrusted surfaces.
- Sometimes they sent the pigeons fluttering up to the sky and played ping-pong on the white encrusted table.
to be covered with something► be covered in/with/by if something is covered in , with , or by something, it has that substance lying all over the top of it or spread all over it: · The ground was covered with snow.· Look at your clothes! They're covered in mud.· His face was covered by a thick black beard with tiny flecks of gray in it. ► be coated in/with if an object is coated in or is coated with a liquid or soft substance, it has a layer of that substance all over its surface: · Serve the chicken with new potatoes coated in butter. ► be encrusted in/with especially written to be covered with something thick and hard that is difficult to remove: · He took off his gloves, which were deeply encrusted with dirt.mud/dirt/blood etc encrusted (=covered with mud, dirt, blood etc): · Evan reached into the pocket of his mud-encrusted jacket and drew out a map. ► be plastered in/with to be covered thickly with something such as mud, especially in a way that looks unpleasant: · He looked at his garden tools, old and plastered with mud.· Her face was plastered in make-up. ► be caked in/with to be covered with something thick and hard, especially mud: · The children were caked in mud from head to toe.· When the police found him, his shoes were missing and his hands were caked with dried blood. ► be shrouded in mist/smoke etc be covered and hidden in mist etc -- used especially in literature: · I looked back, but the shore was shrouded in mist. ► mud-encrusted/jewel-encrusted etc covered with a hard layer of somethingencrusted with/in a gold crown encrusted with diamondsmud-encrusted/jewel-encrusted etc—encrustation /ˌɪnkrʌˈsteɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] |