salted

adj

1. (not-comparable)To which salt has been added.

   “salted peanuts”

   “Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*!”

2. (South-Africa, archaic, not-comparable)Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.

   “It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of salt