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Meaning of "silted up"
silted up: the accumulation of silt or sediment in a waterway, channel, or container, resulting in blockage or obstruction
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- simple past tense and past participle of silt up
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silted up
The former harbour has silted up as well.
The oldest settlement was on an island in the river that progressively silted up.
The floor has been much silted up with earth brought in by rain water.
An old arm of the river has silted up.
Roads are often silted up after heavy rain and very slippery turns.
Over the centuries the well got silted up.
Silted up area where the vegetation has exceeded the pioneer stage.
Over decade the channel silted up.
The channel has silted up at the furthest part from the main river.
I told them we were inheriting a country which has silted up.
The whole area had been silted up by the river flooding over the years.
In particular filters tend to become silted up.
These are now just about completely silted up and little remains of open water.
Since then the lake has become progressively silted up.
By that time the harbour had silted up again and had become a swamp.
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This area used to be a large lagoon which has gradually silted up over time.
Since that time the sea has silted up and is now a good five miles away.
The Grundloser See was originally a residual ice age lake that had almost silted up.
The pool has silted up.
The lake has since silted up and is now part of the Rütiweid meadow.
The harbour later silted up.
Over the centuries the gulf silted up with alluvium carried by the Meander River.
It is now heavily silted up.
It silted up over the Byzantine era, and Perga declined as a result.
It broke down or silted up.
Silted up and obsolete, the port was cleared of debris, filled, and redeveloped.
Over time the channels between the islands have silted up to make one continuous island.
It was dug since the Middle Ages when the meandering old Rhine course silted up.
Because of this the busy fishing harbour gradually silted up and the fishing industry disappeared.
Harbour that was always full of ships, is quite silted up.
This ancient branch of the Nile has silted up and disappeared long ago.
A dry maar results when a maar lake dries out, becomes aggraded or silted up.
The former main branch eventually silted up and is today called the Oude Maasje.
The Pelusiac branch of the Nile silted up.
When the River Aide silted up and was unable.
By late antiquity, the harbour of Sestos had silted up.
In the intervening centuries, the waterway silted up and the island became connected to shore.
Andriake was the harbour of Myra in classical times, but silted up later on.
After 1859, the harbour silted up and the ferry traffic shifted to Munkmarsch.
In the course of time the Jurassic sea silted up completely.
Damme is located on the estuary of the Zwyn, now largely silted up.
The reservoir had become completely silted up since its creation in 1939.
That was at the mouth of the river Achelous, which had become silted up.
Ruin, its port silted up.
From here the Byzantine galleys approached the harbour, now silted up.
It 's completely silted up.
The Meerfelder Maar has an even bigger basin, but three-quarters of it has silted up.
Moreover, the dam is silted up.
By hunter creek 1/2 A mile down the hill, But this abandoned feeder Pond is silted up.
This channel, said Grau-Henry, silted up in turn.
