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dredge

Word family 
Related topics: Water, Civil, Food
dredge /dredʒ/ verb  
1  [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TTWTEC to remove mud or sand from the bottom of a river, harbour etc, or to search for something by doing this 疏浚，清淤；〔在河床、港湾底泥中〕挖掘
 They dredged for oysters.
他们在挖牡蛎。
2. [transitiveT + with]DF to cover food lightly with flour, sugar etc 〔用面粉、糖等〕撒，涂
3 dredge something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v 
a) DISCUSSto start talking again about something that happened a long time ago, especially something unpleasant 翻出，重提〔不愉快的陈年旧事〕
 Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which he made last year.
《新闻周刊》杂志翻出一些他去年讲过的话来。
b) to manage to remember something, or to feel or express an emotion, with difficulty 〔困难地〕追忆起，回忆；感到，表达〔某种感情〕
 Robertson tried to dredge up an image of her in his mind.
罗伯逊努力回想她的样子。
 From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant smile.
她努力装出灿烂的一笑。
c) TTWGETto pull something up from the bottom of a river, lake etc 挖掘，打捞
Examples from the Corpus
dredge up• As Izzie dredged it up again, her growing hair flopped forward over her face and hid what she was thinking.• I can't imagine what would prompt this woman to dredge it all up if there wasn't some truth in it.• The move follows reports that a new mechanised suction dredge is breaking up river banks, blocking rivers and killing fish.
Examples from the Corpus
dredge• Fearing more floods, the state had the river dredged.• That dredging is now behind schedule.• Others specialize in dredging operations required for bridges and dams or for harbors.• The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.• It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation.• Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.
Origin dredge
(1500-1600) Perhaps from Old English dragan “to pull”
dredge verb
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