# salted

Pronunciation: US say "SAWLT-id" /ˈsɔltɪd/; UK say "SOLT-id" /ˈsɒltɪd/

## Adjective

1. Having had salt added, usually for flavor or for preservation.
   - Simple: Having salt added to it, usually for flavor or to keep it from spoiling.
   - _The recipe calls for salted butter rather than the unsalted kind._
   - _Sailors once survived long voyages on salted pork and dried beans._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of salt. — simple past and past participle of salt
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of salt. Use it for salt added to food or roads at an earlier time.
   - _The cook salted the fries lightly before they reached the table._
   - _Crews had salted the roads well before the storm arrived._

## Adjective

3. Of an animal, immune to a disease through vaccination or after having recovered from an earlier infection. *(archaic, South Africa)*
   - Simple: Used of an animal that can no longer catch a disease, after a vaccine or after getting better from it.
   - _Buyers paid a premium for salted horses that had already survived the sickness._
   - _Only salted oxen were trusted to cross the fever-ridden lowlands._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/salted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).