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salt

adjective
  1. (of speech) painful or bitter
    “salt scorn- Shakespeare”
noun
  1. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
    saltinesssalinity
  2. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
    table salt
  3. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
verb
  1. preserve with salt
    “people used to salt meats on ships”
    corn
  2. add zest or liveliness to
    “I salt my lectures with jokes.”
  3. sprinkle as if with salt
    “the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”
  4. add salt to
    salinate