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Definition of salt verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

     

    salt

     verb
    verb
    NAmE//sɔlt//
     
    Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they salt
     
     he / she / it salts
     
     past simple salted
     
     -ing form salting
     
     
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  1. 1[usually passive] salt something to put salt on or in food salted peanuts a pan of boiling salted water
  2. 2salt something (down) to preserve food with salt salted fish We salted down a large crop of beans last year.
  3. 3salt something to put salt on roads to melt ice or snow
    4. Phrasal Verbssalt away
See salt in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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