Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to silt
Participle: silted
Gerund: silting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | silt |
| you | silt |
| he;she;it | silts |
| we | silt |
| you | silt |
| they | silt |
Perfect
| I | have silted |
| you | have silted |
| he;she;it | has silted |
| we | have silted |
| you | have silted |
| they | have silted |
Past
| I | silted |
| you | silted |
| he;she;it | silted |
| we | silted |
| you | silted |
| they | silted |
Pluperfect
| I | had silted |
| you | had silted |
| he;she;it | had silted |
| we | had silted |
| you | had silted |
| they | had silted |
Future
| I | will silt |
| you | will silt |
| he;she;it | will silt |
| we | will silt |
| you | will silt |
| they | will silt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have silted |
| you | will have silted |
| he;she;it | will have silted |
| we | will have silted |
| you | will have silted |
| they | will have silted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | silt |
| you | silt |
| he;she;it | silt |
| we | silt |
| you | silt |
| they | silt |
Perfect
| I | have silted |
| you | have silted |
| he;she;it | have silted |
| we | have silted |
| you | have silted |
| they | have silted |
Imperfect
| I | silted |
| you | silted |
| he;she;it | silted |
| we | silted |
| you | silted |
| they | silted |
Pluperfect
| I | had silted |
| you | had silted |
| he;she;it | had silted |
| we | had silted |
| you | had silted |
| they | had silted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would silt |
| you | would silt |
| he;she;it | would silt |
| we | would silt |
| you | would silt |
| they | would silt |
Perfect
| I | would have silted |
| you | would have silted |
| he;she;it | would have silted |
| we | would have silted |
| you | would have silted |
| they | would have silted |
Imperative
| you | silt |
| we | Let's silt |
| you | silt |
Verbs conjugated like 'silt'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'silt'
hilt,
jilt,
kilt,
lilt,
milt,
salt,
sift,
sile,
silk,
silo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *sḗh₂l
3. From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Sample Sentences
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Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers. [1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:]
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They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea. [2017, Sarah Moss, “London, summer 1878”, in Signs for Lost Children, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 16:]