Encrust

  

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Encrust

Definition: Encrust

Encrust

Verb

1. 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: Encrust

Synonym: beset (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Encrust

Specialty definitions using "encrust": flos ferri. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Encrust

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)57.14%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Encrust

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Encrust

Derivations

Words beginning with "encrust": encrustation, encrustations, encrusted, encrusting, encrusts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Encrust"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "encrust" (pronounced enkru"st)
6-n k r u" s tincrust.
5-k r u" s tcrust.
4-r u" s tantitrust, distrust, entrust, mistrust, rust, thrust, trust.
3-u" s tadjust, 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.

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Anagrams: Encrust

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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