The river was cloudy with silt.
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Silt
//sɪlt//
Synonyms for "silt" (42 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (21)
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2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
2 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
84 translations across 43 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- slik noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Albanian
1 entries- lym noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Arabic
1 entries- غَرِين noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Armenian
1 entries- տիղմ noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Belarusian
3 entries- глей noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- мул noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- іл noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ти́ня noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- затлачвам verb (to clog or fill with silt)
- затлачвам се verb (to become clogged with silt)
Catalan
2 entries- llaquim noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- llim noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 泥沙 noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Czech
3 entries- bahno noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- naplavenina noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- nános noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Danish
1 entries- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Dutch
1 entries- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Finnish
3 entries- lieju noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- liete noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- siltti noun (fine earth deposited by water)
French
4 entries- limon noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- vase noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- envaser verb (to clog or fill with silt)
Galician
1 entries- sedimento noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Georgian
1 entries- შლამი noun (fine earth deposited by water)
German
3 entries- Schlamm noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- Schlick noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- Schluff noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Hebrew
2 entries- טִיט noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- טִין noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Hindi
1 entries- गाद noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Hungarian
4 entries- aleurit noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- iszap noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- kőzetliszt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- üledék noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Ido
2 entries- slamo noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- slamizar verb (to clog or fill with silt)
Indonesian
2 entries- debu noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Irish
1 entries- siolta noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Italian
1 entries- limo noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Japanese
2 entries- シルト noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- 沈泥 noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Kapampangan
1 entries- banlik noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Korean
1 entries- 실트 noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Latvian
1 entries- dūņas noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dumblas noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Maltese
1 entries- ħama noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Māori
4 entries- kenepuru noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- kotae noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- kotae noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- kotao noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Polish
2 entries- ił noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- muł noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Portuguese
2 entries- sedimento noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- silte noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Russian
3 entries- ил noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- заполня́ться и́лом verb (to become clogged with silt)
- проса́чиваться verb (to flow through crevices; to percolate)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- mulj noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- муљ noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- zamuljti verb (to clog or fill with silt)
Slovak
2 entries- nános noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Slovene
1 entries- mulj noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Spanish
3 entries- fango noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- limo noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- sedimentos fluviales noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Swedish
1 entries- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Tagalog
1 entries- labon noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Ukrainian
4 entries- глей noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- мул noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- наму́л noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- іл noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Welsh
3 entries- llaid noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- llifwaddod noun (fine earth deposited by water)
- silt noun (fine earth deposited by water)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The great river was dark with silt.
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Silt has a finer particle size than sand, but not as fine as clay.
Source: tatoeba (10619157)
The soil should be full of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.
Source: tatoeba (12045722)
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