silt up

present singular third person silts up · participle present silting up · participle past silted up · past silted up

1. intransitiveTo become filled or clogged with silt.

   Now the estuary has silted up, and only small pleasure craft can sail up the narrow channel.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68

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   Both are drained by subterranean channels which the water has worn or which earthquakes have opened up through the rock; and whenever these outlets are silted up or otherwise closed, what at other times is a plain becomes converted for the time being into a lake.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 163