silted

Definition of siltednext
past tense of silt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for silted
Verb
  • Fans have flooded social media to share their support for Duff.
    Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Vivid memories of countless nights spent watching bad cult movies with my childhood friends flooded my mind, accompanied by the energetic drum machine pulses and synthesizer melodies of famed B-movie composer Chuck Cirino’s score for Deathstalker II.
    Bear McCreary, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After a brief interlude outside for community members to reconnect, the pews filled up again.
    Camelia Heins, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Giving love to local venues For McLaughlin and Arthurs, the goal was always to bring the film to venues around the Carolinas as a way to promote those spaces, like The Milestone, that were filled with local music history.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The recent floods in central Vietnam killed at least 13 people, inundated over 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, according to the government’s disaster agency, reported by Reuters.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Authorities have warned that low-lying areas could be inundated.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.
    Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • She has been swamped with offers, but this one felt right.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Parents of school-age kids tend to be swamped with extracurriculars in the evenings or sports practice on weekends.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Silted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silted. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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