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salt
/AmE sɔlt 
, BrE sɔːlt, sɒlt /
A
noun
1
a [uncountable]: (Cooking) sal f
pass the salt, please pásame la sal, por favor
have you put salt on the meat? ¿le has puesto or echado sal a la carne?
b [uncountable]: (interest, zest) gracia f
c [countable]: (Chemistry) sal f
2 salts plural
a (smelling salts) sales fpl (aromáticas)
b (laxative) sulfato m de magnesia
Epsom salts sal f de Epsom
3 [countable]: (sailor) ():
an old salt un (viejo) lobo de mar
B
transitive verb
1 (put salt on) ‹vegetables/meat› salar, ponerle sal a, echarle sal a; ‹road› echar sal en
2 salted past participle salado
salted butter mantequilla f salada or con sal
3 (cure) ‹pork/herring› salar; ‹cabbage› curar con sal
4 (enliven) (often passive) ‹conversation/speech› sazonar
C
adjective
1 (salted) (before noun) ‹butter› salado; ‹meat/cod› salado, en salazón
2 (saline) (before noun) ‹pond/lake› salobre, de agua salada
3 ‹air› salobre; ‹taste› salado, a sal
Idioms
the salt of the earth la sal de la tierra
to be worth one's salt
any teacher worth her salt toda maestra que se precie de tal, toda maestra digna de ese nombre
to rub salt into the wound(s) hurgar en la herida
to take sth with a grain of salt, to take sth with a pinch of salt no creerse algo al pie de la letra; tomar algo con pinzas (Southern Cone);
I should take anything he says with a pinch of salt no se puede creer lo que él dice al pie de la letra; todo lo que él diga hay que tomarlo con pinzas (Southern Cone)
Phrasal Verb:
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v + o + adv, v + adv + o
() ‹money/profits› guardar
he must have a few thousand salted away somewhere debe tener unos cuantos miles guardaditos or metiditos en algún lado ()