silting
- noun
- /ˈsɪltɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
sedimentación
- Clearly, an environmental crisis situation in Mexico City will almost certainly be generated by the exhaustion of the water supply, the degradation of the air, the silting up of the drainage system, and citywide flooding resulting from deforestation.
- silting and waterlogging
- silting and erosion
Examples
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Due to excessive rainfall, the lake is experiencing significant silting, reducing its depth.
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In the late fifteenth century, Bruges fell into decline because of the silting up of the Zwyn channel, its access to the sea.
Academic text (1992) -
Because this activity is unregulated, it has become a major factor in land erosion and a contributor to the silting up of water courses.
Academic text (1993) -
Overwatering the land increases production in the short run but worsens waterlogging, silting, and mineralization in the long run.
Academic text (2000) -
Droughts, changing river courses, and silting of the river outlets into the Gulf had pushed the coastline southward and the giant rivers eastward.
Academic text (2007) -
Compost reduces silting and erosion when applied to creek, lake, or river embankments or when used on roadsides and hillsides.
Academic text (1995) -
These systems tend to produce waterlogging, silting, excessive erosion, and salinization or alkalinization of the soil, which leads in turn to a decline in soil fertility that is difficult or impossible to reverse.
Academic text (2000) -
Furthermore, silting of dams and salinization of agricultural water may represent barriers to increasing the long-term MSU of water through anthropogenic manipulation.
Academic text (1992) -
The silting of the water channels connecting Calcutta port is not purely a twentieth-century phenomenon; in fact, a number of commissions were set up by the British Indian government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to seek solutions to the problem of silting.
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The silting of the riverbed has made it difficult for boats to pass through.
Synonyms
2
6.0
Small solid pieces settle and build up at the bottom of a liquid
Antonyms
How Blocked
- Specialized
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5.5
- Specialized
- Specialized
2
6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Silting comes from silt, a word for very fine 'soil' carried by water. Think of a river slowly being filled by this fine soil; that's why silting means the build-up that makes rivers or lakes shallower and can block water flow.