Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to salt
Participle: salted
Gerund: salting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | salt |
| you | salt |
| he;she;it | salts |
| we | salt |
| you | salt |
| they | salt |
Perfect
| I | have salted |
| you | have salted |
| he;she;it | has salted |
| we | have salted |
| you | have salted |
| they | have salted |
Past
| I | salted |
| you | salted |
| he;she;it | salted |
| we | salted |
| you | salted |
| they | salted |
Pluperfect
| I | had salted |
| you | had salted |
| he;she;it | had salted |
| we | had salted |
| you | had salted |
| they | had salted |
Future
| I | will salt |
| you | will salt |
| he;she;it | will salt |
| we | will salt |
| you | will salt |
| they | will salt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have salted |
| you | will have salted |
| he;she;it | will have salted |
| we | will have salted |
| you | will have salted |
| they | will have salted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | salt |
| you | salt |
| he;she;it | salt |
| we | salt |
| you | salt |
| they | salt |
Perfect
| I | have salted |
| you | have salted |
| he;she;it | have salted |
| we | have salted |
| you | have salted |
| they | have salted |
Imperfect
| I | salted |
| you | salted |
| he;she;it | salted |
| we | salted |
| you | salted |
| they | salted |
Pluperfect
| I | had salted |
| you | had salted |
| he;she;it | had salted |
| we | had salted |
| you | had salted |
| they | had salted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would salt |
| you | would salt |
| he;she;it | would salt |
| we | would salt |
| you | would salt |
| they | would salt |
Perfect
| I | would have salted |
| you | would have salted |
| he;she;it | would have salted |
| we | would have salted |
| you | would have salted |
| they | would have salted |
Imperative
| you | salt |
| we | Let's salt |
| you | salt |
Verbs conjugated like 'salt'
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 'salt'
halt,
malt,
sale,
silt,
spalt,
walt,
act,
ant,
apt,
bait,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *sḗh₂l
3. From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
4. Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt.
Verbs referencing "salt"
Maori tote, German, Pennsylvania
salse.
Sample Sentences
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to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
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The brine begins to salt.
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The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted. [1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417:]
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They salted the document with arcane language.
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The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting. [1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:]
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These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials. [1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page 154:]
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In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
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And then there was a different faction of organizers who you call more like “professional activists” or “white leftists,” and they were maybe more privileged, maybe just joined the job to salt for the union. [2026 June 2, Alex Skopic, Chris Smalls, “Chris Smalls Is Still Fighting the Bosses”, in Current Affairs:]