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Phrase(s): cake someone or something with something
to cover someone or something with a thicker layer of clumps of a substance such as mud, dirt, blood, etc. • The attendant caked her with hot mud at the beginning of the arthritis treatment. • All the motocross racers were heavily caked with mud. • She caked herself with green mud to remove her wrinkles.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs