silt up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]silt up (third-person singular simple present silts up, present participle silting up, simple past and past participle silted up)
- (intransitive) To become filled or clogged with silt.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68:
- Now the estuary has silted up, and only small pleasure craft can sail up the narrow channel.
Translations
[edit]become filled or clogged with silt