ENCRUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encrusted mean? 

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

1. having a hardened crust as a covering

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCRUSTED (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 

The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)