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encrustment

encrustment noun: encrustation (something forming a crust).

Noun

encrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)

  1. encrustation (something forming a crust).
    • disengaging truth from its encrustment of error1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC

Forms of encrustment

pluralencrustments
alternative formincrustment

Origin of encrustment

From encrust + -ment.

Questions about encrustment

What does encrustment mean?
Encrustment means encrustation (something forming a crust).
What part of speech is encrustment?
Encrustment is a noun.
What is the plural of encrustment?
The plural of encrustment is encrustments.

Words near encrustment in the dictionary

  1. encrusted
  2. encruster
  3. encrusters
  4. encrusting
  5. encrustive
  6. encrustment
  7. encrustments
  8. encrusts
  9. encrypt
  10. encryptable
  11. encrypted

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