dredge

[US]/dredʒ/
[UK]/drɛdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to clear out (a river, etc.) by scooping out mud; to sprinkle (flour, sugar, etc.) by scattering; to dig out or extract something; to recall striving to do something
n. a machine for scooping out mud.

Phrases & Collocations

dredge a river

dredge a canal

dredge up memories

dredge up

dredge pump

grab dredge

Example Sentences

mud was dredged out of the harbour.

dredge the bananas with sugar and cinnamon.

dredged up the silt.

I don't understand why you had to dredge up this story.

As for cutter suction dredge, the cutterhead ...

She dredged a little sugar over the cake.

dredged up bitter memories.

He managed to dredge up a smile.

She always dredges up that embarrassing story.

The excavators have dredged up nothing but mud.

Methods There were 171cases suffering from t ubal obstruction accepting the operation,whose fallopian tubes were intubated and dredged under hystero scope.

Real-world Examples

Now, when you think of archeology you might think of digs, ditches, dredges, but drones?

Source: CNN Listening Compilation July 2014

Yet every day we dredge, pollute and overfish our oceans.

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) December 2015 Collection

Is it the kind of thing where if this goes on, you can dredge around the problem?

Source: CNN 10 Student English November 2022 Compilation

Some zoophytes were dredged up by the chain of our trawl.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

It's gonna be used for my dredge.

Source: Gourmet Base

Duke has dredged up about 3,000 tons of the ash.

Source: NPR News July 2014 Compilation

And I'm going to dredge it with flour and salt...

Source: Victoria Kitchen

Look, there is nothing to be gained by dredging up the past.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 3

First, pre-writing will dredge up things you didn't even think you knew about the topic.

Source: Crash Course Learning Edition

My subconscious had dredged up exactly the images I'd been trying so desperately to avoid.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

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