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Meaning silt meaning

What does silt mean?

silt

— noun mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake — verb (= silt up) become chocked with silt The river silted up

Synonyms silt synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as silt?

silt English » English

ooze mud slime sediment mire sludge deposit alluvium slush slurry silt up puddle precipitate lees dregs blackish mud suspension subside soil slosh slab silting shallow settle seaweeds sand rubbish rock flour refuse muddy mud silting mud filling mud accumulation mortar loam inorganic silt gumbo gratings etc and deposited drift-wood draggle dirt debris clay bemire alluvial soil

Topics silt topics

What do people use silt to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Flood

  • What words refer to the material left behind by a flood?
    silt
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River
Universe, creation Water

Water quality

Conjugation silt conjugation

How do you conjugate silt?

silt · verb

Examples silt examples

How do I use silt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The river was cloudy with silt.

Movie subtitles

Nick, his wounds are covered with algae. his lungs are full. and there's silt under his fingernails.
Man, we must've sifted through a hundred tons of that silt.
A lot of silt from the nile.
The only one where the silt's deep enough to take the foundation piles.
Silt must withstand all obstacles.
Right here around this island the tides are slowing down, maybe because of silt building up from garbage dumped in the bay or from the overuse of fertilizers.
Flowing southward down this great river the silt is carrying pesticides.
Mineral-rich silt was carried toward the desert of Egypt from lands upstream where wildlife flourished.
Whoa look at the silt we are throwing up.
Silt layer's pretty thin.
Silt? Asbestos?
Some, uh, silt profiles.
I mean, silt profiles?
Have you told him about the silt at the bottom?
His wounds are covered with algae, his lungs are full and there's silt under his finger nails.
This is a bay in a million. The only one where the silt's deep enough to take the foundation piles.
That's silt, like a dry riverbed.
Yeah, but that doesn't explain the silt.
We're going down below the silt, the mud that covers the bottom.
The WSKRS are picking up an unusual amount of silt in the water.
Only the silt's all around us.
Marauder Reef, 300,000 tons of trillium buried under hundreds of feet of silt and sand, undiscovered and unknown except by me, and now you.
Some silt profiles. - Mm, mm.
Collect silt, three metres radius to a depth of ten centimetres.
To get what they seek the prospecting elephants must first blow away the covering layer of silt.
It seems completely buried in silt.
The labyrinth of mangrove roots. captures sediments washed down from the islands. keeping the coral reef from being smothered in silt.
This silt settles in bays. forming vast plains of organic debris, sand and muck.
Most of the mud and silt is over here. Tells me the car settled driver's-side down on the lake bed.
By beating its tail down hard, this dolphin stirs up the shallow silt.
River silt.
The silt on the bottom is like glue.
It's heavier, so it falls into the silt.
You just got to wash the silt away.
Lots of wear and tear after death and silt in the pockets and folds of his clothes.
Yeah, it's-it's silt.
It's-it's pond silt.

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The surface of coral is highly sensitive, and will now be exposed to major damage from all sorts of silt and debris carried back by water receding from flooded land.

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