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salt up

salt up verb: to salt food for seasoning.

Verb

salt up (third-person singular simple present salts up, present participle salting up, simple past and past participle salted up)

  1. (transitive) to salt food for seasoning.
  2. (transitive, usually, drain, nozzle) To become encrusted with salt, such as from seawater or from salt-treated roads.
  3. (transitive) to become saltier, especially to become salty enough to inhibit agriculture.
  4. (transitive) To treat with salt in preparation for snowfall.

Forms of salt up

third-person singular presentsalts up
present participlesalting up
past participlesalted up
pastsalted up

Questions about salt up

What does salt up mean?
Salt up means to salt food for seasoning.
What part of speech is salt up?
Salt up is a verb.
What is the past tense of salt up?
The past tense of salt up is salted up.

Words near salt up in the dictionary

  1. salt the mine
  2. salt tree
  3. salt trees
  4. salt truck
  5. salt trucks
  6. salt up
  7. salt water
  8. salt water aspiration syndrome
  9. salt water taffy
  10. salt waters
  11. salt wedge

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