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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dredge up vb (tr, adverb)- to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source: to dredge up worthless ideas
- to raise with or as if with a dredge: they dredged up the corpse from the lake
dredge1 /drɛdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., dredged, dredg•ing. n. [countable] - Civil Engineeringa powerful machine for removing earth, as by a scoop.
v. [~ + object] - Civil Engineeringto clear out with a dredge:to dredge a river.
- Civil Engineeringto remove (sand, etc.) from the bottom of a body of water:to dredge the sand from the river bottom.
- dredge up, to discover and reveal;
unearth: [~ + up + object]The media dredged up yet another scandal.[~ + object + up]to dredge stories up.
dredg•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dredge1 (drej),USA pronunciation n., v., dredged, dredg•ing. n. - Civil EngineeringAlso called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
- Civil Engineeringa barge on which such a machine is mounted.
- Civil Engineeringa dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.
v.t. - Civil Engineeringto clear out with a dredge;
remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of. - Civil Engineeringto take, catch, or gather with a dredge;
obtain or remove by a dredge.
v.i. - Civil Engineeringto use a dredge.
- dredge up:
- to unearth or bring to notice:We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.
- to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search:Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
- 1425–75; late Middle English (Scots) dreg-, Old English *drecg(e); see dray, draw
- Foodto sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, esp. flour.
- Anglo-French drag(g)é, dragee, Old French (see dragée); compare similar dual sense of Medieval Latin dragētum, dragium
- verb, verbal use of dredge (now obsolete or dialect, dialectal) mixture of grains, late Middle English dragge, dregge, apparently to be identified with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection 1590–1600
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