besalted

adj
/bɪˈsɑltɪd/

Etymology

From be- + salt + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.

    • There they ate raw onions and allspice soused in vinegar and a caligot of eels so bepeppered and besalted that if applied as liniment it would have raised a blister on a rhinoceros.
    • Though desertlike at first glance, this landscape is, in fact, not deserted — and certainly not desertified, unlike its besalted, besotted counterparts downvalley.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA