silting in English

verb
1
become filled or blocked with silt.
the river's mouth had silted up
synonyms:become blockedbecome cloggedfill up (with silt)
verb
  • become blockedbecome cloggedfill up (with silt)
  • silt up

Use "silting" in a sentence

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1. On Romney Marsh, silting of river mouths was worsened by the problem of peat shrinkage.

2. Any alteration of water clarity or silting over rock and riffles can be expected to be detrimental.

3. The result obtained is that the recharge of silting and blocking rioter to groundwater is mainly in spating season.

4. Astrakhan is an important industrial town with an extensive fishing and caviar business and a port—which, however, is subject to silting, as is the Volga canal to the Caspian

5. The western coast features many protected harbors, but silting is a major problem caused by sediment from the high levels of inland erosion carried by rivers crossing the broad western plains.

6. Apollonia flourished in the Roman period and was home to a renowned school of philosophy, but began to decline in the 3rd century AD when its harbor started silting up as a result of an earthquake.

7. At that time the port had almost disappeared due to silting, induced by the intensification of labour in the watershed at the same time as the clearing of woods and forests following the abolition of privileges.