encrust
/ɪnˈkrʌst
/ /ɛnˈkrʌst/(also incrust)
verb [with object]
Cover or decorate (something) with a hard surface layer: the mussels encrust navigation buoys (as adjective encrusted) the dried and encrusted blood...
- They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish.
- 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.
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
- post-chariot
- post-Chaucerian
- post-choreic
- post-Christian
- post-classic
- post-classical
- post-classical Latin
- post-classicism
- postclavicle
- post-climacteric
- post-climax
- postclitic
- postclypeus
- post-coach
- postcode
- postcoded
- postcode lottery
- post-coenal
- post-coital
- post-coitally
- post coitum
- postcolonial
- postcolonialism
- postcolonialist
- post-coloniality