MEANING
To form a cyst or become enclosed in one.
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Words that belong together
- an organism encysts
- encysted tissue
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The organism encysted before conditions changed.
The report identified tissue encysted within the surrounding layer.
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Word forms
- Base
- encyst
- Past tense
- encysted
- Past participle
- encysted
- Present participle
- encysting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- encyst
- Present continuous
- am/is/are encysting
- Present perfect
- have/has encysted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been encysting
- Past
- encysted
- Past continuous
- was/were encysting
- Past perfect
- had encysted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been encysting
- Future
- will encyst
- Future continuous
- will be encysting
- Future perfect
- will have encysted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been encysting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: encyst; encysts; encysted; encysted; encysting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: encysts.
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