to salt
- verb
- /sɔlt/
- He salted and dried his own beef... and sold it to the miners heading west to seek their fortune.
- salted meat
- salted fish
- salted for preservation
You don't let them salt right there.
- You don't let them salt right there.
- So when you start your carnivore diet, you need to salt your food to taste.
Examples
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And then what we do is we cut them and salt them to preserve them.
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Any meat that was not consumed fresh he could salt and sell to the shipmasters as sea rations.
Fiction book (1990) -
We work through the night to salt the fish.
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We can salt the meat.
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So when you start your carnivore diet, you need to salt your food to taste.
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I'm also going to salt my avocado, some pepper, a few cubes of feta.
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Candace walked to the sink where Marguerite was salting a sea bass and put her hand on Marguerite's back.
Fiction book (1998) -
Leutefisk is cod fish that's been salted and soaked in lye for a week or so.
Fiction book (1999) -
We need to salt the meat before we can cook it.
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Make sure to salt the fish well to give it flavor.
Synonyms
To give food or drink a certain taste by adding spices
To add salt, herbs, or spices to food
To preserve meat by using salt
To make something salty by adding salt
To add salt to food, often to preserve or flavor it
To preserve food by adding salt so it lasts longer
To keep meat or fish from spoiling by salting
Idioms
- Informal
A kind, honest, reliable person who helps others in their community
- Informal
To make someone's bad feelings worse by reminding them of a disappointment
- Archaic
To be in a lower social or work position and have other people treat you as less important
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
The capital of Utah near the Great Salt Lake and home to the main offices of the Mormon Church
A white salt you put in warm water to soothe sore muscles, relieve constipation, or feed plants
- Specialized
A substance in bile that helps break down fats so the body can digest them
- Literature
A serious promise that is meant to last forever, often used in old religious books
- Specialized
A salt made by replacing two hydrogen atoms in an acid with metal atoms
- Specialized
A solid made when two different salts form crystals together and shows some properties of each
- Specialized
A salt that forms when ammonia reacts with an acid and has an NH4+ part
- Specialized
A plant that grows in salt marshes and has small pale purple or white flowers
- Specialized
A white chemical in crystal form that people use as a laxative and in industry
A large flat area of salt and dry land in north central Iran, also called Dasht-e Kavir
- Archaic
A salt from Bad Ems mineral waters that treats throat and nose infections
- Specialized
A white crystal used as a mild laxative and in early electrical devices
- Specialized
A plant with daisy-like flowers that lives in salt marshes and comes back each year
A white wheat bread made with bacteria that can grow in salty dough and a cornmeal starter
How Salty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Salt as a verb comes straight from the noun salt and means to put that mineral on food. To salt something is simply to add the white mineral to give it taste or help preserve it.