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Definition: Crusted |
CrustedAdjective1. Having a hardened crust as a covering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crusted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: CrustedSynonyms: crustlike (adj), crusty (adj), encrusted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crusted |
| English words defined with "crusted": crust ♦ Darier's disease ♦ keratosis follicularis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crusted": Dermatitis, Seborrheic ♦ Pityriasis Lichenoides. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And her hands were crusted with salt, pink with fluid from the fresh pork |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | People with weakened immune systems and the elderly are at risk for a more severe form of scabies, called Norwegian or crusted scabies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crusted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.52% of the time. "Crusted" is used about 29 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.52% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20.69% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 13.79% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crusted": be crusted over ♦ crusted snow ♦ crusted strand ♦ crusted wines ♦ crusted with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crusted": lichen-crusted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crusted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbuluar me lëvozhgë (crusty), i mbuluar me lëkurë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مكسي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | закоравял (callous, case-hardened, chronic, confirmed, double-dyed, habitual, hard boiled, indurate, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, irreclaimable, obdurate, tough), покрит с кора (corticate, corticated). (various references) | |
Chinese | "了'垢. (various references) | |
Danish | crustosus (crusty), skorpedannende (crusty), skorpedaekket (crusty). (various references) | |
Dutch | crustosus (crusty), crusteus (crusty), korstend (crusty). (various references) | |
Finnish | travertiini (calc sinter, calcareous sinter, calcareous tufa, calcsinter, crusted strand, folia, lily pad, rimstone, rimstone shelf, shelfstone, travertine), sakkaa muodostava viini (crusted wines). (various references) | |
French | crustacé (crusty), croûteux (crusty). (various references) | |
German | eingefleischt (accustomed, chronic, confirmed, deep rooted, engrained, ingrained, inveterate). (various references) | |
Greek | εφελκιδώδης (crusty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוקרם (creamy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kérges (callous, callused, crusted over, crusty). (various references) | |
Italian | crostoso (crusty), incallito (calloused, engrained, hardened, inveterate). (various references) | |
Manx | scroigagh (crustacean, crusty, skin-deep). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustedcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | com crosta (crusty). (various references) | |
Romanian | antic (ancient, antiquated, antique, Hoar, old, old fashioned, venerable), acoperit cu o coajã, învechit (antediluvian, antiquated, back, dated, disused, grey headed, inveterate, lapsed, musty, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old fashioned, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, rusty, stale, superannuated, threadbare). (various references) | |
Russian | устарелый (antiquated, archaic, behind the times, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, old-hat, out of date, outdated, worm-eaten), покрытый коркой, древний (ancient, ancients, hoary, immemorial, old). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | s koricom. (various references) | |
Spanish | costroso (crusty, scabby). (various references) | |
Swedish | med bottensats, inrotad (fixed, habitual, inbred, ingrained, inveterate), överdragen med skorpa. (various references) | |
Turkish | tortulu (fecal, feculent, ground, sedimentary, turbid), koyu (black, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, sombre, stiff, strong, tenebrous, thick), kabuklu (barky, crusty, hard-shell, husky, podded, shelled, sloughy, testacean, testaceous), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran), antika (antiquarian, antique, curio, curiosity, eccentric, kooky, old world, quaint, queer), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вкритий кіркою (crusty), з осадком (crusty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cổ lỗ; cố chấp; thâm căn cố đế. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "crusted": becrusted, encrusted, incrusted. (additional references) | |
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"Crusted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Christed, Crauste, Cristea, crustade, crustea, cruted, Cruzatt, curtted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crusted" (pronounced kru"stud) |
| 7 | k r u" s t u d | encrusted. |
| 6 | -r u" s t u d | distrusted, entrusted, mistrusted, rusted, trusted. |
| 5 | -u" s t u d | adjusted, busted, lusted, disgusted, dusted, gusted, maladjusted, readjusted, unadjusted. |
| 4 | -s t u d | accosted, arrested, assisted, attested, bested, blacklisted, blasted, boasted, boosted, breasted, chested, coasted, coexisted, congested, consisted, contested, contrasted, costed, crested, delisted, detested, digested, invested, lambasted, lasted, listed, disinterested, divested, enlisted, exhausted, existed, fasted, feasted, fisted, flabbergasted, foisted, forecasted, forested, frosted, guested, harvested, hoisted, hosted, infested, ingested, insisted, interested, manifested, masted, molested, nested, ousted, outlasted, pasted, persisted, posted, preexisted, protested, rearrested, reinvested, requested, resisted, rested, retested, roasted, roosted, sandblasted, suggested, tasted, tested, tightfisted, toasted, twisted, unassisted, uncontested, uninterested, unlisted, unmolested, untested, vested, wasted, worsted, wrested. |
| 3 | -t u d | abrogated, abstracted, abutted, accelerated, accented, accentuated, accepted, acclimated, accommodated, abated, abbreviated, abdicated, abducted, abetted, aborted, accounted, accredited, accumulated, acquainted, acquitted, acted, activated, adapted, addicted, adjudicated, admitted, adopted, adulterated, advocated, affected, affiliated, afflicted, affronted, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, airlifted, alerted, alienated, alleviated, allocated, allotted, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amounted, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, annotated, anted, anticipated, antiquated, appointed, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assaulted, asserted, assimilated, associated, assorted, attempted, attenuated, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, authenticated, automated, averted, awaited, backdated, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bifurcated, bigoted, blanketed, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boated, bolted, booted, boycotted, budgeted, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, castigated, castrated, catapulted, celebrated, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chlorinated, circuited, circulated, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coated, collaborated, collected, comforted, commemorated, commented, committed, communicated, commuted, compacted, compensated, competed, complemented, completed, complicated, complimented, computed, conceited, concentrated, concerted, concocted, conducted, confiscated, conflicted, confronted, congratulated, congregated, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consecrated, consented, consolidated, constipated, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, consummated, contacted, contaminated, contemplated, contented, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, cooperated, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, corrupted, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, darted, dated, daunted, deactivated, debated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, degenerated, dehydrated, dejected, delegated, deleted, deliberated, delighted, delineated, demented, demonstrated, demoted, denigrated, denominated, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, depreciated, deregulated, desecrated, desegregated, deserted, designated, destructed, detected, deteriorated, detonated, detracted, devaluated, devastated, deviated, devoted, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, interpolated, interpreted, interrelated, interrogated, interrupted, intersected, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, introverted, inundated, invalidated, invented, inverted, investigated, invigorated, invited, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lamented, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, liquidated, litigated, located, looted, lubricated, discounted, discredited, discriminated, disenchanted, disintegrated, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, disseminated, dissented, dissipated, distorted, distracted, distributed, diverted, documented, domesticated, dominated, donated, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, duplicated, edited, educated, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elevated, elicited, eliminated, elongated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emitted, emulated, enacted, encapsulated, enchanted, encrypted, enumerated, enunciated, equated, eradicated, erected, erupted, escalated, escorted, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, evicted, eviscerated, exacerbated, exacted, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excavated, excepted, excerpted, excited, excommunicated, excoriated, executed, exempted, exerted, exhibited, exhilarated, exhorted, exited, exonerated, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, expropriated, exterminated, extorted, extracted, extradited, extrapolated, extricated, extroverted, exulted, fabricated, faceted, facilitated, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fascinated, fated, faulted, federated, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fitted, fixated, flagellated, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, fluctuated, fomented, footed, footnoted, forfeited, formulated, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frustrated, gated, generated, germinated, gifted, glaciated, gloated, glutted, graduated, grafted, granted, grated, gravitated, greeted, grunted, gutted, gyrated, halfhearted, hallucinated, halogenated, halted, handcrafted, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, hesitated, highlighted, hinted, hooted, humiliated, hunted, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, ignited, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impacted, imparted, impersonated, implanted, implemented, implicated, imported, impregnated, imprinted, imputed, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incited, incorporated, inculcated, indebted, indicated, indicted, indited, indoctrinated, inducted, infatuated, infected, infiltrated, inflated, inflected, inflicted, infuriated, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, initiated, injected, innovated, inoculated, inserted, insinuated, inspected, instigated, instituted, instructed, insulated, insulted, integrated, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interjected, malted, maltreated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, marketed, masturbated, mated, mediated, medicated, melted, merited, meted, migrated, minted, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mitigated, moderated, modulated, motivated, mounted, multifaceted, mutated, muted, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, nearsighted, necessitated, negated, neglected, negotiated, netted, nominated, nonregulated, noted, objected, obligated, obliterated, obstructed, officiated, omitted, operated, opinionated, opted, orbited, orchestrated, orientated, oriented, originated, ornamented, outdated, outed, outfitted, outvoted, overacted, overestimated, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overregulated, overrepresented, overstated, overweighted, oxygenated, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, participated, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, penetrated, perfected, perforated, permeated, permitted, perpetrated, perpetuated, persecuted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, pollinated, polluted, pontificated, populated, ported, posited, potted, pouted, precipitated, predated, predicated, predicted, predominated, preempted, prefabricated, premeditated, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prognosticated, prohibited, projected, proliferated, promoted, prompted, promulgated, propagated, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protracted, punctuated, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, radiated, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, reactivated, readmitted, reallocated, reappointed, reasserted, rebated, rebutted, recalculated, recanted, reciprocated, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recreated, recruited, redacted, redecorated, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, reevaluated, refitted, reflected, reformulated, refrigerated, refuted, regenerated, regimented, regretted, regulated, rehabilitated, reignited, reincarnated, reinstated, reinstituted, reintegrated, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvigorated, reinvited, reiterated, rejected, rejuvenated, related, relegated, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, rented, repainted, repatriated, repeated, repented, replanted, replicated, reported, represented, reprinted, repudiated, reputed, rerouted, resented, resonated, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, resuscitated, retaliated, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverberated, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, rocketed, rooted, rotated, rotted, ruminated, rutted, sainted, salivated, salted, saluted, sated, saturated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, segregated, selected, separated, serrated, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, simulated, sited, situated, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sophisticated, sorted, speculated, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, stagnated, stalemated, started, stated, stilted, stimulated, stipulated, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, subjugated, submitted, subordinated, substantiated, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suffocated, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, tainted, talented, targeted, taunted, tempted, terminated, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tilted, tinted, titillated, tolerated, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, truncated, tufted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadulterated, unaffected, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompensated, uncompleted, uncomplicated, unconnected, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underestimated, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, understated, undetected, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, uneducated, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unincorporated, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninitiated, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unmitigated, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unregulated, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unsaturated, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unsophisticated, unstated, unsubstantiated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, venerated, vented, ventilated, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crudest. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: crudes, cruets, cruset, curets, cursed, duster, educts, eructs, rectus, recuts, rudest, rusted, truced, truces. | |
-2 letters: crest, crude, cruds, cruet, cruse, crust, curds, cured, cures, curet, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, drest, druse, duces, ducts, duets, dures, durst, ecrus, educt, eruct, recut, scute, sucre, truce, trued, trues, turds. | |
-3 letters: crud, crus, cuds, cued, cues, curd. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: crudites, curdiest, curtsied, destruct, eductors, traduces. | |
+2 letters: aeroducts, becrusted, clustered, construed, courtside, croustade, cruddiest, crudities, cursedest, curtseyed, destructs, diuretics, dustcover, educators, encrusted, incrusted, outcursed, outscored, reductase, reductors, reinducts, scuttered, traducers, transduce, underacts, undercuts. | |
+3 letters: abductores, certitudes, coruscated, courtesied, courtsides, crassitude, croustades, destructed, discounter, dustcovers, huckstered, instructed, introduces, obstructed, outcrossed, outscorned, pedicurist, persecuted, prosecuted, rectitudes, rediscount, reductants, reductases, reductions, reeducates, resculpted, rusticated, scouthered, sculptured, seductress, structured, subcordate, subtracted, transduced, transducer, transduces, uncorseted, undercoats, unescorted, unscripted. | |
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