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incrustation

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
  2. noun A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
  3. noun A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
  4. noun Anything inlaid or embedded.
  5. noun An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.

Similar words

encrustation crust incrustment encrustment crusting encruster imbruement embedment incrassation interfixation

Often followed by

of on and is in which or with upon

Word family

encrustation encrustations incrustations

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