salted
Americanadjective
adjective
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seasoned, preserved, or treated with salt
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informal experienced in an occupation
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of salted
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at salt 1, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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Fans of lightly salted Calbee chips will no longer see the familiar orange and blue design, while seaweed-flavor enthusiasts will miss out on yellow and green.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
The possible answers were plain flour, salted butter, egg yolk and double cream.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
I always get the Andante, a cold brew with maple syrup, salted sweet cream foam, cacao powder and pink salt.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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