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Definition: Encrust |
EncrustVerb1. Cover or coat with a crust. 2. Decorate or cover lavishly with gems. 3. Form a crust or a hard layer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: EncrustSynonym: beset (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Encrust |
| Specialty definitions using "encrust": flos ferri. (references) |
| "Encrust" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Encrust" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "encrust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | praroj (gild, overgild), formoj kore. (various references) | |
Arabic | لبس بقشرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | образувам се (come), образувам кора, покривам се с котлен камък, покривам (bestride, cap, case, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover up, deck, defray, do over, encase, enshroud, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pit, pustulate, sheet, surmount, vesture, wreathe), инкрустирам (inlay, set). (various references) | |
French | encroûter, incruster, couvrir d'une encroûte. (various references) | |
German | überkrusten (incrust, overcrust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kéreggel bevon (to crust, to encrust). (various references) | |
Italian | incrostare (be encrusted, cake, scale). (various references) | |
Manx | scroigey (cake), cur scroig er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | encrustay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incrustar (crust, fur, imbed, ingraft, inlay). (various references) | |
Romanian | prinde coajã (cake), acoperi cu o coajã, încrusta, împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references) | |
Russian | инкрустировать (enchase). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokriti korom (incrust). (various references) | |
Spanish | incrustar (embed, enchase, incrust, inlay). (various references) | |
Swedish | täcka med skorpa (crust), bilda skorpa på, betäcka (cover, Mount, serve, service, shelter), bekläda (board up, case, clothe, coat with, cover, face, fill, hold, line, revet, tile), beklä (board up, case, clothe, coat with, cover, face, fill, hold, line, revet, tile). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaplanmak (be coated, be covered, be lined, be plated, incrust), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, clothe, coat, cover, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, overwhelm, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, sheet, shield, smother in, smother with, suffuse, take, thread, upholster, veneer, wreathe), kabuk bağlamak (cake, form a crust, heal over, incrust, scab, scab over, scar over, skin over, Slough). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gaюlamak (inlay). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інкрустувати (inlay), покриватися кіркою. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "encrust": encrustation, encrustations, encrusted, encrusting, encrusts. (additional references) | |
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"Encrust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenchrus, ecrits, ecrus, ecruts, enarques, encres, encross, necros. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encrust" (pronounced enkru"st) |
| 6 | -n k r u" s t | incrust. |
| 5 | -k r u" s t | crust. |
| 4 | -r u" s t | antitrust, distrust, entrust, mistrust, rust, thrust, trust. |
| 3 | -u" s t | adjust, bused, bussed, bust, Combust, cussed, discussed, disgust, dust, fussed, gust, just, lust, must, nonplussed, readjust, robust, unjust. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cruets, cruset, curets, eructs, rectus, recuts, truces, tuners, unrest. | |
-2 letters: cents, centu, crest, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curns, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, ecrus, eruct, nerts, nurse, recut, rents, runes, runts, scent, scute, stern, sucre, terns, truce, trues, tuner, tunes, turns, unset. | |
-3 letters: cent, crus, cues, cure, curn, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ecru. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: centaurs, centrums, chunters, construe, counters, currents, curtness, encrusts, recounts, recusant, strucken, trounces, uncrates. | |
+2 letters: ceintures, centuries, chaunters, cinctures, confuters, construed, construes, consulter, countries, courantes, courtesan, cretinous, curbstone, encrusted, enuretics, incrusted, intercuts, junctures, nectarous, neuritics, neurotics, nocturnes, outrances, punctures, recusants, reinducts, rufescent, stauncher, subcenter, tinctures, transduce, trouncers, truancies, truncates, uncreates, underacts, undercuts. | |
+3 letters: becrusting, calentures, centaureas, centauries, centurions, clustering, confitures, consulters, continuers, counterspy, countersue, courantoes, courtesans, crunchiest, crustacean, crustiness, curbstones, curtnesses, curtseying, discounter, encounters, encrusting, frutescent, incurvates, insecurity, instructed, introduces, lacustrine, nucleators, occurrents, outscorned, overcounts, putrescent, putrescine, quercetins, raconteurs, raunchiest, reconquest, recontours, recounters, rediscount, reductants, reductions, scattergun, scrutineer, scrutinies, scrutinise, scrutinize, scuttering, securement, subcenters, subcentral, succincter, supertonic, surjection, transduced, transducer, transduces, trucklines, truncheons, turgencies, turgescent, unclearest, unclutters, uncorseted, undercoats, unescorted, unscripted, utterances. | |
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