The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SALTED
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What does SALTED mean?
SALTED verb- To add salt to.
- To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- To include colorful language in.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To which salt has been added.
- Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.