SALT
Scrabble letter values: S1A1L1T1 = 4
Definition
- adjective (of speech) painful or bitter.
- verb add salt to.
- verb sprinkle as if with salt.
- verb add zest or liveliness to.
- verb preserve with salt.
- noun a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).
- noun white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food. — synonyms: table_salt, common_salt
- noun negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons. — synonyms: Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks
- noun the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth. — synonyms: saltiness, salinity
Examples
- “salt scorn- Shakespeare”
- “a salt apology”
- “the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”