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crust
crust is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
- 2noun
The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
- 3noun
The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
- 4noun
The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
- 5noun
The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
- 6noun
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- 7noun
A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
- 8noun
An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
- 9noun
To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
- 10intransitive verb
To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
- 11noun
the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- 12noun
the outer layer of the Earth
- 13noun
a hard outer layer that covers something
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- 14verb
form a crust or form into a crust
"The bread crusted in the oven"
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