to crown
- verb
- /kraʊn/
- Specialized
- So he's going to be seeing that dentist for the fillings and the crowns and the and the potential root canal on that tooth.
- crown a molar
Examples
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He decided to crown the damaged tooth with a new enamel covering after consulting his orthodontist.
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After the accident, the dentist had to crown her broken tooth to restore its shape and function.
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His back teeth were crowned with gold.
Fiction book (1997) -
To get her teeth crowned.
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We're going to take out her old crowns and we're going to make her preparations, make the teeth smaller.
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To improve her smile, the dentist recommended that she crown the tooth that had significant decay.
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A title given to a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year
- Jargon
In baseball, a player who leads the league in batting average, runs batted in, and home runs in one season
- NSFW
A ring of thorn branches put on Jesus' head to mock and hurt him before his death on the cross
- Archaic
A place ruled directly by the British king or queen, usually through a governor they choose
- Specialized
A fast forest fire that moves through the tops of trees, often moving ahead of the fire on the ground
- Specialized
A type of glass lens makers use that bends light little and keeps colours from separating
- Archaic
Old window glass you get by blowing hot glass into a round disk and spinning it flat
A tall plant with a ring of leaves at the top of its stem and bright bell-shaped orange flowers
- Specialized
A plant with large reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in fields and roadsides
- Specialized
A lens made from a kind of clear glass that gives sharp images with little color blur
- Specialized
A plant with pink and white flowers that spreads to cover soil and prevent erosion
- Specialized
A fungal disease of alfalfa that causes white growths at the base of the stem
An annual plant with yellow flowers that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico
- Archaic
A hard cap placed over a broken or decayed tooth to make it look and work like a real tooth
- Specialized
Clear glass used in camera lenses that bends light less and keeps colours from separating
- Jargon
A baseball season when a player leads the league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in
How Permanent
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crown as a dental verb comes from the idea of putting a small 'head' on a tooth, from corona meaning 'garland' for the head. So to crown a tooth is to fit it with a protective cover on its top.