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silted

silted is the simple past and past participle of silt.

Meaning of silt

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

  1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
  2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
    • Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the...1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1
  3. (ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

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Phrases with silted

Questions about silted

What is silted the simple past and past participle of?
Silted is the simple past and past participle of silt.

Words near silted in the dictionary

  1. silt up
  2. siltage
  3. siltation
  4. siltations
  5. siltbush
  6. silted
  7. silted up
  8. silthiofam
  9. siltier
  10. siltiest
  11. siltiness

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