Silting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SILTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SILT, to fill with a fine sediment
• become filled or blocked with silt
• fill or block with silt
NOUN:
• fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
• a bed or layer of silt.
• sediment whose particles are between clay and sand in size (typically 0.002–0.06 mm).
• sediment whose particles are between clay and sand in size (typically 0.002–0.06 mm).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fill with silt (a sedimentary material)

Words related to SILTING

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How to use SILTING in a sentence

• At the mouths the mud pours out into the sea and forms fresh deposits constantly on the bottom, which are gradually silting up still newer lands to seaward.
• Still, the Wantsum was all this while gradually silting up, a grain at a time, and the Isle of Ruim was slowly becoming joined to the opposite mainland.
• The silting up of the Wantsum and the decay of Sandwich Haven left Thanet quite out of the world, remote from all the main highroads of the new England.
• The rumour was spread abroad, as it has been more than once since, that the Hooghly was silting up and Calcutta as a port was doomed.

Similar words containing SILT without suffix ing

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