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"crust over" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to mean that something has been sealed shut and is not permeable. For example, "After the wound healed, a thin crust formed over it that protected it from infection."
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Symptoms include high fever, fatigue and fluid-filled lesions that often ooze and crust over, leaving survivors irreversibly scarred.
The eyelids can crust over completely with scabs.
All of this was happening while the Hulkster's maki roll sampler plate began to crust over (as sushi rice tends to do if not eaten fast enough). .
The box of baking soda should be replaced every 30 days, because the top of the baking soda can crust over as it absorbs moisture, limiting its absorption process.
The fierce heat of the fire helped create a light, crispy crust over the pudding.
After several days, no new lesions develop, and the vesicles gradually crust over and heal.
Gray scabs form a light crust over the bald patches, which break apart under a wet washcloth.
The ice sheet depressed Earth's crust over present-day Canada, causing the liquid mantle beneath to bulge southward.
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After magma spills out of the fissure, the surface quickly crusts over, forming a shell.
The guy at Autozone sold me some goop to put on the bulb plug and in the socket connectors to keep it from crusting over with corrosion, but it's not really necessary.
For example, Tylenol delays the crusting-over of chickenpox lesions.
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