incruster

Inherited from Old French incruster, borrowed from Latin incrustāre.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kʁys.te/

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incruster

1. to embed, to inlay
   • 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 13, in Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie:

     Cependant Passepartout, juché sur les premières branches d’un arbre, ruminait une idée qui avait d’abord traversé son esprit comme un éclair, et qui finit par s’incruster dans son cerveau.

     Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now firmly lodged in his brain.

2. (reflexive, informal) to gatecrash, to stay (for a long time), to overstay
   • 2012 [1928], Robert Laffont, transl., Les quatre Hollandais, translation of The Four Dutchmen by W. Somerset Maugham, →ISBN:

     Ça me gênait beaucoup de m’incruster chez vous, j’avais honte d’abuser : mais, à présent, je n’ai plus d’excuse.

     It's made me very uncomfortable planting myself on you like this, I've been quite ashamed, but now there's no excuse for me.

• → English: encrust

• “incruster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

incrū̆ster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of incrū̆stō

Borrowed from Latin incrustō.

incruster

1. to cover with a crust

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.