Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.See full entry for dredge Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation. Definition of dredge dredge (dred ) verb When people dredge a harbour, river, or other area of water, they remove mud and unwanted material from the bottom with a special machine in order to make it deeper or to look for something.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.

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