| 单词 | dredge |
| 释义 | dredge (once / 2520 pages) 1nv 2v When a harbor becomes filled with silt, you dredge it to make it navigable again. You scoop out the mud with a big shovel, which is also called a dredge, and make a channel deep enough for ships. Dredges have been at work in the Hudson River for years getting rid of industrial toxins, dredging up the contaminated sediment and loading it into barges to be carried away. If you've dropped your gold watch or your car rolled into a pond by mistake, there are dredges that can be dragged across the bottom to recover things that have fallen in. You can dredge up memories, too, which usually entails reminding people of unpleasant ones they’d rather forget. WORD FAMILYdredge: dredged, dredger, dredges, dredging+/dredger: dredgers USAGE EXAMPLESThe city is still counting the cost of dredging the reservoir, which ran into many millions of dollars. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) While the oil is heating, dredge each wing in cornstarch, tossing to coat the wing completely. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) The work would include construction of five bridges across the east-west canal, dredging and compensating for the environment impact of the project. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1n a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed Hyper digger, excavator, power shovel, shovel a machine for excavating 2v search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost Syn|Hyper drag look for, search, seek try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of 3v remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water 2Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract v cover before cooking dredge the chicken in flour before frying it Hypo|Hyper flour cover with flour coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface |
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