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   En·crust

   /enˈkrəst/

   

   verb

   • 1. cover (something) with a hard surface layer: "the mussels encrust navigation buoys"
   • ▪ form a crust.

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to form a crust’): from French incruster or encroûter, both from Latin incrustare, from in- ‘into’ + crusta ‘a crust’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. encrustment noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

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