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Definition of encrust in English: encrust(also incrust) verb ɛnˈkrʌstɪnˈkrʌst [with object]Cover or decorate (something) with a hard surface layer. the mussels encrust navigation buoys Example sentencesExamples - They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish.
- Being in such shallow water, the coral encrusted wreck is a mini-ecosystem in itself and snorkeling here is like being in a large aquarium.
- Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea.
- When I arrived, and removed my glasses to take my helmet off, I found I could see much better without them thanks to the ice crystals encrusting the lenses.
- Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.
- Steep sloping walls and cascading waterfalls of coral encrusted the features like a blanket of molten lava.
- There is a good covering of marine life, and many rocks are encrusted by a hard pink growth.
- That gritty feeling in my eyes, as if the lids were encrusted with sand; it would pass.
- This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae.
- Salt crystals encrust your shoes and coat your pants cuffs, and you begin to think your own cells are turning to salt.
- Every surface is encrusted in sponges, corals and weed.
- A shoal of silvery pollack hurried away above some huge boulders covered in brilliant pink and red encrusting algae.
- The fronts were encrusted with dried mud, collected over the years.
- The dull grey concrete of the flats was coated in a layer of thick slimy mould and the windows were encrusted with smog fumes.
- Washing out her blood encrusted hair, she watched the dirty brown stains run down the bath floor, in twisted patterns, that stuck in some places.
- Once it takes hold it encrusts boat hulls and propellers, and chokes pipes and aquaculture.
- The corners of his mouth were still encrusted with chocolate from his cookies.
- The rim of the windowpane was encrusted with snow.
- A thick layer of ice encrusted the surface of the dark water.
- It was hard to tell of course considering the state of him, hard to see beyond the filth that encrusted his body and clothing.
Synonyms cover, face, surface, veneer, inlay, laminate
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'cause to form a crust'): from French incruster or encroûter, both from Latin incrustare, from in- 'into' + crusta 'a crust'. Rhymes adjust, august, bust, combust, crust, dust, entrust, gust, just, lust, mistrust, must, robust, rust, thrust, trust, undiscussed Definition of encrust in US English: encrust(also incrust) verb [with object]1Cover (something) with a hard surface layer. the mussels encrust navigation buoys Example sentencesExamples - The rim of the windowpane was encrusted with snow.
- The corners of his mouth were still encrusted with chocolate from his cookies.
- That gritty feeling in my eyes, as if the lids were encrusted with sand; it would pass.
- Once it takes hold it encrusts boat hulls and propellers, and chokes pipes and aquaculture.
- They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish.
- Washing out her blood encrusted hair, she watched the dirty brown stains run down the bath floor, in twisted patterns, that stuck in some places.
- A thick layer of ice encrusted the surface of the dark water.
- When I arrived, and removed my glasses to take my helmet off, I found I could see much better without them thanks to the ice crystals encrusting the lenses.
- Every surface is encrusted in sponges, corals and weed.
- Being in such shallow water, the coral encrusted wreck is a mini-ecosystem in itself and snorkeling here is like being in a large aquarium.
- There is a good covering of marine life, and many rocks are encrusted by a hard pink growth.
- It was hard to tell of course considering the state of him, hard to see beyond the filth that encrusted his body and clothing.
- Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea.
- Steep sloping walls and cascading waterfalls of coral encrusted the features like a blanket of molten lava.
- The fronts were encrusted with dried mud, collected over the years.
- Salt crystals encrust your shoes and coat your pants cuffs, and you begin to think your own cells are turning to salt.
- Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.
- The dull grey concrete of the flats was coated in a layer of thick slimy mould and the windows were encrusted with smog fumes.
- This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae.
- A shoal of silvery pollack hurried away above some huge boulders covered in brilliant pink and red encrusting algae.
Synonyms cover, face, surface, veneer, inlay, laminate - 1.1no object Form a crust.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to form a crust’): from French incruster or encroûter, both from Latin incrustare, from in- ‘into’ + crusta ‘a crust’. |