verb
- to cover with or form a hard coating or layer on the surface
Examples
- Salt water encrusts the old pier with white crystals.
- Barnacles encrust the ship’s hull after months at sea.
- Ice encrusts the windows during winter storms.
- Mineral deposits encrust the inside of old water pipes.
- Mud encrusts his boots after walking through the marsh.
- Coral slowly encrusts the sunken wreck on the ocean floor.