adjective
- filled or blocked with silt (fine particles of earth)
verb
- past tense of silt; filled or became filled with silt
Examples
- The harbor became silted after years of neglect.
- Heavy rains silted up the drainage ditches.
- The silted riverbed made navigation impossible.
- Workers cleared the silted canal to restore water flow.
- The pond had silted over time, becoming shallow.
- Storm runoff silted the reservoir with mud and debris.