salted

1. 1
   adjective

   Having salt added to it, usually for flavor or to keep it from spoiling.

   She spread salted butter on the warm bread.

   Salted meat lasts a long time without a fridge.

   Similarsalty, corned, brined

   Oppositeunsalted, fresh

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of salt. Use it for salt added to food or roads at an earlier time.

   She salted the soup before serving it.

   We salted the icy steps this morning.

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3. 3
   adjectivearchaicSouth Africa

   Used of an animal that can no longer catch a disease, after a vaccine or after getting better from it.

   Like a child who has already had the measles and cannot catch it a second time.

   A salted ox was worth more because it would not fall sick.

   It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.

   1901, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”Here, salted means immune to a disease after recovering from it.

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