Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.They dredged up ( brought to the surface) all kinds of garbage from the bottom of the river. to search an area of water by dredging: The police are dredging the lake for his body. using a boat or special device: They have to dredge the canal regularly to keep it open. It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation. to talk about something bad or unpleasant that happened in the past: The article dredged up details of her unhappy childhood. to remove unwanted things from the bottom of a river, lake, etc.The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.Others specialize in dredging operations required for bridges and dams or for harbors.Fearing more floods, the state had the river dredged.

2 DF to cover food lightly with flour, sugar etc → dredge something ↔ up → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus dredge

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water, Civil, Food dredge dredge / dredʒ / verb 1 TTW TEC to remove mud or sand from the bottom of a river, harbour etc, or to search for something by doing this They dredged for oysters.

Dredge meaning