MEANING
To cover or become covered with a crust or firmly attached surface layer.
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Words that belong together
- encrust a surface
- mineral-encrusted pipes
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Minerals encrusted the pipe until its original surface vanished.
The dried residue had encrusted the latch, fixing it in place.
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Word forms
- Base
- encrust
- Past tense
- encrusted
- Past participle
- encrusted
- Present participle
- encrusting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- encrust
- Present continuous
- am/is/are encrusting
- Present perfect
- have/has encrusted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been encrusting
- Past
- encrusted
- Past continuous
- was/were encrusting
- Past perfect
- had encrusted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been encrusting
- Future
- will encrust
- Future continuous
- will be encrusting
- Future perfect
- will have encrusted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been encrusting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: encrust; encrusts; encrusted; encrusted; encrusting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: encrusts.
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