crust

1. 1.

   form a crust or form into a crust

   “The bread crusted in the oven”

   Broaderchange surface

Other forms of crust

plural

crusts·

past tense

crusted·

present participle

crusting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crust

What does crust mean?

crust means "the outer layer of the Earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crust?

crust has 1 syllable: crust. In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌst/.

What is another word for crust?

Close synonyms include Earth's crust, incrustation, encrustation, gall, impertinence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crust a common word?

crust is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crust?

2 words rhyme with crust. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.