silt up

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silt up (third-person singular simple present silts up, present participle silting up, simple past and past participle silted up)

  1. (intransitive) To become filled or clogged with silt.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68:
      Now the estuary has silted up, and only small pleasure craft can sail up the narrow channel.

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