Dredge - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |dredʒ|  American pronunciation of the word dredge
Brit.  |dredʒ|  British pronunciation of the word dredge

noun

- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

verb

- cover before cooking
dredge the chicken in flour before frying it
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost (syn: drag)
- remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

Extra examples

Please don't dredge up the sad facts of his past.

Let's not dredge up that old quarrel.

They dredged for oysters.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: dredge
he/she/it: dredges
present participle: dredging
past tense: dredged
past participle: dredged
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