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salted

One entry found.

Main Entry:
2salt
Function:
transitive verb
Date:
before 12th century
1 a: to treat, provide, or season with common salt b: to preserve (food) with salt or in brine c: to supply (as an animal) with salt2: to give flavor or piquancy to (as a story)3 a: to enrich (as a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places b: to add something to secretly <salted the files with forged papers> ; also : to insert or place secretly <salted the mines along the road>4 a: to sprinkle with or as if with a salt b: scatter, intersperse
salt·er 
          Listen to the pronunciation of salter \ˈsl-tər\ noun
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