silts (Meaning)
silts
to make or become choked, blocked, filled, or covered with silt, to become choked or obstructed with silt, a soil made up mostly of silt with little clay, to choke, fill, cover, or obstruct with silt or mud, loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter, soil containing 80 percent or more of such silt and less than 12 percent of clay, very small particles left as sediment from water, a deposit of sediment (as by a river)
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to make or become choked, blocked, filled, or covered with silt, to become choked or obstructed with silt, a soil made up mostly of silt with little clay, to ch
detritus, alluviums, marls,sediments, alluvia, topsoils, molds, gumbos, muds,loesses
opens (up), scoops (out), excavates, unclogs, clears, unplugs, unblocks, frees,unstops, empties
The river's silts accumulated on the riverbed, forming a thick layer of sediment.
The silts carried by the wind settled on the car, leaving a fine layer of dust.
The dam's reservoir was filled with silts, reducing its water storage capacity.
The silts clogged the drainage pipes, causing flooding during heavy rainfall.
