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Definition of salt verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

salt

verb
 
/sɔːlt/,
 
/sɒlt/
 
/sɔːlt/
Verb Forms
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/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [usually passive] salt something to put salt on or in food
    • salted peanuts
    • a pan of boiling salted water
    • Did you salt the potatoes?
  2. salt something (down) to preserve food with salt
    • salted fish
    • We salted down a large crop of beans last year.
  3. salt something to put salt on roads to melt ice or snow
  4. 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’.
See salt in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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