CRUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crusted mean? 

• CRUSTED (adjective)
  The adjective CRUSTED has 1 sense:

1. having a hardened crust as a covering

  Familiarity information: CRUSTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a hardened crust as a covering

Synonyms:

crusted; crustlike; crusty; encrusted

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by an immense number of mites and hyperkeratotic crusted lesions, and is usually accompanied by lymphadenopathy and eosinophilia.

(Norwegian Scabies, NCI Thesaurus)

The lesions develop as erythematous scaly patches that progress to crusted, pruritic, erythematous plaques.

(Extramammary Paget Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An individual is contagious 1-2 days prior to the appearance of the blisters until all blisters are crusted over.

(Chicken Pox Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,—all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)