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tr.v. dredged,
dredg·ing,
dredg·es To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.
[From obsolete dredge, a sweetmeat, from Middle English dragge, from Old French dragie, alteration of Latin tragēmata, confectionary, from Greek, pl. of tragēma, sweetmeat; see terə-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

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