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Meaning of besalted | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/bɪˈsɑltɪd/

Definitions

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

not-comparable

Examples

“1870 July 9, "Nature-development and Theology", Littell's Living Age, Vol. 106 (Vol. 18 of the fourth series), No. 1362, page 69, quoting The Contemporary Review. He could no more believe it than he could believe in petrified sea-shells or besalted “Edith, Lot's wife.””
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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