[ɪnˈkrʌst], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cover or decorate (something) with a hard surface layer
(e.g: the mussels encrust navigation buoys)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to form a crust’): from French incruster or encroûter, both from Latin incrustare, from in- ‘into’ + crusta ‘a crust’