silt
noun
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
has silted
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present perfectof silt (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the postal system has silted up with all the debris of computerized commerce: catalogues from Wisconsin cheesemakers, offers of stock tips, pleas for charitable donations.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in recent years a change has taken place, and the blown sand has silted up the channel, with the result that this tidal area has been transformed into a brackish lake.
From Territory in Bird Life by H. Eliot Howard
At the bar where the sand has silted, a few steamers were lying.
From In Mesopotamia by Maurice Nicoll
“It has silted up considerably, even in my time, in spite of continual dredging.”
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene
This shingle has silted up many a Suffolk port, but it has proved a very effectual barrier against the inroads of the sea.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
