variants
or less commonly incrust
encrusted also incrusted; encrusting also incrusting; encrusts also incrusts
: to cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crust
: to form a crust
Examples of encrust in a Sentence
refrigerator shelves that were encrusted with the residue of many spills
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Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Surprise her with something brilliant and diamond-encrusted from the online fine jewelry retailer James Allen.
—Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
The bottom had been stripped clean of mussels at the end of the summer, but by October was again completely encrusted.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
Seeking higher and drier ground, the windsurfer noticed a hard hat encrusted with barnacles.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Encrust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encrust. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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encrust
transitive verb
en·crust
variants
also incrust
: to cover, line, or overlay with a crust
: to form a crust
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