What is "silted up"

Usage examples of "silted up".

These and the iron bridges likewise were overthrown, and presently quite disappeared, for the very foundations were covered with the sand and gravel silted up.

The river Dives has silted up and runs morosely now through miles of meadows which are often flooded, and winds to the sea among enormous sand-banks.

Torrents of rain poured down from island hills and silted up the shoreline, strangling the tiny coral.

There had been good trade here, it seemed, before the harbor silted up.

The frigate anchored off the silted up harbour and once again Ramage and Southwick went ash ire in the cutter, Southwick holding his chart and map.

Now the channel was empty of water and silted up nearly to the level of the houses.

Not only was this critical freshwater fish reserve dying out, but as the Great Lake silted up, it closed off an exit valve for the lower reaches of the Mekong River.

Directly in front of them, faintly illuminated by a grimy skylight, was a medium-sized room some fifteen feet square, empty except for the dust silted up against the skirting boards.

There had been shoaling over the years, and the arch supports were silted up.