salt
/sɑlt/ verb C2- To add salt to. · to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- To deposit salt as a saline solution. · The brine begins to salt.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- To sprinkle throughout. · They salted the document with arcane language.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
He/she/it salts · Past salted · Past participle salted · -ing form salting
Verb forms
- Base form
- salt
- He/she/it
- salts
- Past
- salted
- Past participle
- salted
- -ing form
- salting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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she was up to her chin in salt water.
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole.
## The Salt Merchant and His Ass
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