salt
verb/sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/
/sɔːlt/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they salt | /sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/ /sɔːlt/ |
| he / she / it salts | /sɔːlts/, /sɒlts/ /sɔːlts/ |
| past simple salted | /ˈsɔːltɪd/, /ˈsɒltɪd/ /ˈsɔːltɪd/ |
| past participle salted | /ˈsɔːltɪd/, /ˈsɒltɪd/ /ˈsɔːltɪd/ |
| -ing form salting | /ˈsɔːltɪŋ/, /ˈsɒltɪŋ/ /ˈsɔːltɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] salt something to put salt on or in food
- salted peanuts
- a pan of boiling salted water
- Did you salt the potatoes?
- salt something (down) to preserve food with salt
- salted fish
- We salted down a large crop of beans last year.
- salt something to put salt on roads to melt ice or snow
Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
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