salted

[sawl-tid]

adjective

1. seasoned, cured, or otherwise treated with salt.

salted

/ ˈsɔːltɪd /

adjective

1. seasoned, preserved, or treated with salt

2. informal,  experienced in an occupation

Other Word Forms

• unsalted adjective
• well-salted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of salted¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; salt ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The best approach isn’t to go on a diet, which usually fails, but to eat more of the healthy foods you like: unsalted or lightly salted nuts, vegetables, fruits and fish.

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Diamol Sène, who dries salted fish in the sun, says some of the women who previously worked alongside her at a fish processing site are now unemployed.

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You don’t need to be heavy-handed, but 15 well-seasoned ingredients will sing together more beautifully than one giant pot that only gets salted at the end.

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Greenwood’s graphic details are vivid and disturbing, from screaming that is “a high unnatural wail that could shrivel souls like salted slugs” to air “powdered with concrete and sulfur.”

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It’s the perfect picnic dessert that can be enjoyed on its own or in a homemade trail mix with crackers, dried fruit and salted nuts.

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Related Words

• alkaline 
• briny 
• pungent 
• saline 
• sour