Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cover or coat with or as if with a crust.
- transitive verb To decorate by inlaying or overlaying with a contrasting material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
incrust , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To incrust. See
incrust .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cover with a hard
crust . - verb To
inset oraffix decorative materials upon a surface
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
- verb cover or coat with a crust
- verb form a crust or a hard layer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But concerns have emerged that salt in the seawater could damage machinery, clog pipes and encrust fuel rods, making it difficult for them to cool.
U.S. Takes Bigger Role in Cooling Operation Chester Dawson 2011
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But concerns have emerged that salt could damage machinery, clog pipes and encrust fuel rods, complicating efforts to cool them.
Reactors Had High Rate of Problems Andrew Morse 2011
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That was the message I got from readers after last week's column on how those retailer "rewards" cards increasingly fill our wallets and encrust our key chains.
You, too, can trim down that hefty wallet John Kelly 2010
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That was the message I got from readers after last week's column on how those retailer "rewards" cards increasingly fill our wallets and encrust our key chains.
You, too, can trim down that hefty wallet John Kelly 2010
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Cult of Mac explains, "Instead of paying $40,000 for a Swarovski iPhone 4, two Australian businessmen paid customizer Stuart Hughes eight million dollars to plate their iPhone 4s in gold and then encrust them in over five hundred diamonds totaling over 100 karats."
Most Expensive iPhone 4 EVER Is Encrusted With Over 500 Diamonds (PHOTOS) Bianca Bosker 2010
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You think this, and are ready to encrust yourself with what is conventional and practical.
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Cult of Mac explains, "Instead of paying $40,000 for a Swarovski iPhone 4, two Australian businessmen paid customizer Stuart Hughes eight million dollars to plate their iPhone 4s in gold and then encrust them in over five hundred diamonds totaling over 100 karats."
Most Expensive iPhone 4 EVER Is Encrusted With Over 500 Diamonds (PHOTOS) Bianca Bosker 2010
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As to why the state thought it so important to evict my family and me on Prokhorov's NBA schedule, so he could encrust his plaything with diamonds, is something that speaks for itself.
Daniel Goldstein: I Never Promised to Be an Ineffectual Martyr 2010
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The ocean, that needs my forgiveness as much as Nikolai, as much as the grains of sand that encrust my skin and still remember the great mountains;
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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Then, I'll convert all that hair into diamonds, and encrust Beethoven's skull with them.
Lather, rinse, (exposition) repeat Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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