salted
/ˈsɔltɪd/
verb
- Past tense of salt: added salt to something.
- The chef salted the steak lightly before grilling.
- She salted the soup just before serving it.
- He salted the driveway to melt the ice.
adjective
- Seasoned or preserved with salt.
- The recipe calls for salted peanuts instead of unsalted ones.
- She ordered a soft pretzel with salted butter.
- Salted fish was a common food for sailors on long voyages.
- Containing a high amount of salt, often used to describe water.
- The salted water of the Dead Sea makes swimming easy.
- The lake became salted after years of evaporation.
- Some plants can only grow in salted soil near the ocean.
- Experienced or hardened by long exposure to something (informal, figurative).
- He is a salted veteran of the tech industry.
- After twenty years of teaching, she was a salted professional.
- The old captain was a salted sailor who had seen every storm.
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