silt

Speech parts

1. silt - Noun

2. silt - Verb

Meaning

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.

To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mud deposit sediment sludge alluvium silt up delta earth clay lees mire goo soil sand debris
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Antonyms

mountain base basis sea whole ocean
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Hypernyms

soil foul dirt choke clog congest

Phrases with the word

silt over fill up with silt silt cat silt goby glacial silt fine-grained silt

Derivatives

silted silting

Anagrams

list slit

Examples

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there. Tom Morello

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. John Joly

...only those who have been really dry know that there is no drink like chaggle water, brackish, chlorinated, with a fine earthy silt at the bottom, pure Gunga Din juice. We hated it and would have sold our souls for it. George MacDonald Fraser

The river silted up Source: Internet

“Accordingly the only solution is to ensure that existing gullies are cleaned of silt and leaves on a much more frequent basis at this known ‘hot spot’ which is, of course, a key route in Broughty Ferry.” Source: Internet

After the Hurricane Katrina disaster there were proposals to remedy the environment by pumping silt to the shore. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Silsden silsesquioxane silsila silt cat silt goby silt over