salt
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Sense: Tasting of salt
Synonyms:
alkaline, saline, briny, salty Collocations, acrid, brackish, highly flavored, highly flavoured , oversalted, pungent, saliferous, salt Collocations, salted, saltish, savory, savoury , sour Collocations
Sense: Preserved with salt
Synonyms:
salted, brined, cured, pickled, corned, marinated, dilled, salt-pickled, preserved, soused, dry-cured
Sense: A common seasoning and preservative
Synonyms:
sodium chloride, common salt, table salt, savor, savour , condiment, flavoring, flavouring , spice Collocations, seasoning, sea salt, road salt, brine Collocations, flavor Collocations, flavour , taste Collocations, preservative, salinity, seasoned salt, saltiness, garlic salt, onion salt
Sense: Anything that provides savor
Synonyms:
relish Collocations, pungency, smartness, humor Collocations, wit Collocations, punch Collocations, zest Collocations, zing, zip Collocations, liveliness, piquancy, sauce Collocations, pretty wit, quick wit, poignancy, savoriness, savouriness
Sense: To flavor with salt
Synonyms:
season Collocations, make tasty, make piquant, flavor Collocations, cure Collocations, pickle Collocations, dry-salt, marinade, add zing, add zip
Sense: To scatter thickly
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