encrusted

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,038 of 15,258neutral

Encrusted means covered with a hard or jewelled layer. Encrusted with salt, jewel-encrusted, encrusted with barnacles.

It works in two directions: encrusted with jewels is luxury and encrusted with lime is neglect, and the word itself is neutral about which. It takes with. Note crust beneath it, from the Latin for a hard covering.

Definitions of encrusted

1adjectiveencrustedCovered with a hard or jewelled layer.C1
“The old pan was encrusted with burnt fat that no amount of scrubbing would shift.”

encrusted is a quality of covering.

Where it comes from

Latin
incrustare
French
incruster
English
encrust
English, today
encrusted

Built from

in- · Latin — in
crustare · Latin — to cover with a crust

encrust comes from French incruster, from Latin incrustare, from in- (“in”) + crustare (“to cover with a crust”). by surface analysis, en- + crust.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

encrusted in the wild

The hairpin may be decorative and encrusted with jewels and ornaments, or it may be utilitarian, and designed to be almost invisible while holding a hairstyle in place.
Hairpin
When taken from the ocean it is usually encrusted with coralline algae and inhabited by a multitude of marine organisms.
Live rock
The Studiolo is a small painting-encrusted barrel-vaulted room in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
Studiolo of Francesco I
The technique is named for the diamond encrusted drill bit used.
Exploration diamond drilling
Common names include alpine saxifrage, encrusted saxifrage, lifelong saxifrage, lime-encrusted saxifrage, livelong saxifrage, white mountain saxifrage, and silver saxifrage.
Saxifraga paniculata

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

← Vocabulary