Synonyms for encrust
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-kruhst |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈkrʌst |
Top 10 synonyms for encrust Other synonyms for the word encrust
- besoil
- blur
- botch
- bronze
- bush
- ceil
- chrome
- coat
- contaminate
- corrupt
- debase
- decay
- defile
- discolor
- draggle
- electroplate
- enamel
- encrust
- face
- flake
- foil
- foul
- gild
- grime
- incrust
- interline
- laminate
- layer
- make dusty
- make impure
- mess up
- mold
- muddy
- nickel
- overlay
- panel
- platinize
- pollute
- quilt
- reinforce
- rot
- scale
- sheath
- silver
- smirch
- smoke
- smutch
- spatter
- spoil
- spot
- stain
- stratify
- sweat
- taint
- tar
- tarnish
- wad
- wainscot
Définition of encrust
Origin :- 1640s, from French incruster, from Latin incrustare "to cover with crust," from in- (see in- (2)) + crusta (see crust). Related: Encrusted; encrusting.
- As in line : verb put covering inside object
- As in plate : verb coat with metallic material
- As in dirty : verb cause to be soiled
- You think this, and are ready to encrust yourself with what is conventional and practical.
- Extract from : « The Kempton-Wace Letters » by Jack London
- Chatterton took great pains to encrust his gold with verd-antique; it requires little to remove the green rubbish from the coin.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. » by Various
- In spite of daily care, very hard water will encrust the china.
- Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping » by Elizabeth Hale Gilman
- They constitute the greater number by far of the hard minerals which encrust the terrestrial globe.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
- Poetry has no golden mean; mediocrity here is of another metal, which Voltaire, however, had skill enough to encrust and polish.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
- Some marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime not only encrust rocks but give rise to sheets of submarine limestone.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 » by Various
- A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it.
- Extract from : « A Girl Among the Anarchists » by Isabel Meredith
Antonyms for encrust
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