silt

About 2.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
2. noun Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
3. noun A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
4. verb To clog or fill with silt.
5. verb To become clogged with silt.
6. verb To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Similar words

silt up siltation sediment alluvium sludge sand slime loam clay sedimentation

Often followed by

and loam in or is from of to up

Word family

siltation siltations silted siltier siltiest silting silts silty