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besalted

/bɪˈsɑltɪd/

besalted adjective: treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.

Adjective

besalted (not comparable)

  1. Treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.
    • He could no more believe it than he could believe in petrified sea-shells or besalted “Edith, Lot's wife.”1870 July 9, "Nature-development and Theology", Littell's Living Age, Vol. 106 (Vol. 18 of the fourth series), No. 1362, page 69, quoting The Contemporary Review.
    • There they ate raw onions and allspice soused in vinegar and a caligot of eels so bepeppered and besalted that if applied as liniment it would have raised a blister on a rhinoceros.1933, Susanne Rouviere Day, Where the Mistral Blows: Impressions of Provence, Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 118

Origin of besalted

From be- + salt + -ed.

Questions about besalted

What does besalted mean?
Besalted means treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.
What part of speech is besalted?
Besalted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce besalted?
Besalted is pronounced /bɪˈsɑltɪd/.

Words near besalted in the dictionary

  1. besaint
  2. besainted
  3. besainting
  4. besaints
  5. Besalan
  6. besalted
  7. besamim
  8. besan
  9. besan cheela
  10. besan chilla
  11. besandaled

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