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Salt
/sɔːlt/
A white crystalline substance used to season food and preserve it
Synonyms:
halite
seasoning
brine
Antonyms:
sweet
sugar
bland
unsavory
insipid
Examples:
Then they
salted
the pieces of meat for the journey.
She had hidden the bottle behind the bath
salts
.
That
salt
on the tray, what else could it be?'
Etymology:
Old English
sealt
, from Proto-Germanic
saltą
from Proto-Indo-European
sal-
, meaning
salt
or
sea
.
Usage Statistics:
47 mentions per 1 million words
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