Dredge
verb
To remove something from the bottom of a body of water using a machine or device.
They will dredge the river tomorrow to remove the trash.
Often appears as...
- dredge the river
- dredge the lake
verb
To coat wet or moist food with a dry ingredient before cooking.
You can dredge the chicken in flour before frying it.
Often appears as...
- dredge in flour
- dredge in breadcrumbs
verb
To bring up or mention something unpleasant or inconvenient.
Please don't dredge up that old argument again.
Often appears as...
- dredge up the past
- dredge up an argument
Usage tips
Idiomatic
verb
To remove something from the bottom of a body of water using a machine or device.
They will dredge the river tomorrow to remove the trash.
Often appears as...
- dredge the river
- dredge the lake
verb
To coat wet or moist food with a dry ingredient before cooking.
You can dredge the chicken in flour before frying it.
Often appears as...
- dredge in flour
- dredge in breadcrumbs
verb
To bring up or mention something unpleasant or inconvenient.
Please don't dredge up that old argument again.
Often appears as...
- dredge up the past
- dredge up an argument
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Impact
Dredging rivers can affect ecosystems, important to discuss in environmental contexts.
Environmentalists are monitoring the impact of dredging on the fish population.
Pro Tip 2/3Navigational Improvement
Dredging is often done to make waterways deeper for ships to pass safely.
The port's channel will be dredged to accommodate larger vessels.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Operations
Used when retrieving objects from water, such as during salvage missions.
Divers will dredge the lake to recover the sunken artifacts.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Impact
Dredging rivers can affect ecosystems, important to discuss in environmental contexts.
Environmentalists are monitoring the impact of dredging on the fish population.
Pro Tip 2/3Navigational Improvement
Dredging is often done to make waterways deeper for ships to pass safely.
The port's channel will be dredged to accommodate larger vessels.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Operations
Used when retrieving objects from water, such as during salvage missions.
Divers will dredge the lake to recover the sunken artifacts.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Impact
Dredging rivers can affect ecosystems, important to discuss in environmental contexts.
Environmentalists are monitoring the impact of dredging on the fish population.
Pro Tip 2/3Navigational Improvement
Dredging is often done to make waterways deeper for ships to pass safely.
The port's channel will be dredged to accommodate larger vessels.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Operations
Used when retrieving objects from water, such as during salvage missions.
Divers will dredge the lake to recover the sunken artifacts.
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Environmentalism on the...
possible so our oysters grow just like the wild ones do just in a cage and we pull the cage up will actually show you they're creating a little reef environment just like you would in a major reef environment we're just doing it on a smaller scale and so we don't have to dredge the the bottom to get those oysters back we just lift cage and now our your oysters helping to reseed
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Why I still have hope...
a coral can regrow; it just needs time and protection and a reasonable temperature. Some corals can regrow in 10 years -- others take a lot longer. But the more stresses we take off them locally -- things like overfishing, sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution, dredging, coastal construction --
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Where will you be able...
and building up low-lying areas of land with dredged sand to shield themselves against storms and rising sea levels. And the islands’ governments have repeatedly lobbied on the global stage for countries with the highest emissions to reduce pollution and take responsibility for climate change.
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Coral Reef Ocean...
absolutely so let's talk about that i mean what what for you the have you found to be the main threats to our corals of the of the earth and across all our oceans well if we talk very generally and this includes deep corals and cold water corals things like dredging and habitat
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Dry-docking a Cruise...
Catherine one of four tugs guiding the ship into drydock he needs to keep a close eye on the bays heavy traffic and shallow waters you're not in the channel it's five feet deep yeah it just comes up where they don't have it dredged so you got to know where you are and make
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The Unexpected,...
And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal works that impacted seagrass. So by the end of the 20th century, we calculated that one-third of the known seagrass areas in the ocean had been lost. And yet efforts to protect them became urgent.
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A new way to "grow"...
trying to fight against a superdynamic, high-energy problem, and nature is almost always going to win. So that's likely not going to work either. The third approach is using dredging. So dredging is where you suck up a bunch of sand from the deep ocean
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Protecting Scotland's...
started going back and identifying the same places that we'd filmed while dredging was going on and the recovery since dredging stopped has been fantastic for scallop divers it's also being great for wildlife tourism from
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Miami's Choice: Bigger...
was not deep enough because of that ports along the eastern seaboard are in a race to get their ports ready and deepened and widened to accommodate these shipping giants the dredging process generates sedimentation in the
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Where Does Your Sewage...
surface while a second submerged blade dredges the heavier settled sludge from the bottom of the tank all this solid sludge is then sent for further processing the remaining sewage then flows down
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Environmentalism on the...
possible so our oysters grow just like the wild ones do just in a cage and we pull the cage up will actually show you they're creating a little reef environment just like you would in a major reef environment we're just doing it on a smaller scale and so we don't have to dredge the the bottom to get those oysters back we just lift cage and now our your oysters helping to reseed
Video examples
Why I still have hope...
a coral can regrow; it just needs time and protection and a reasonable temperature. Some corals can regrow in 10 years -- others take a lot longer. But the more stresses we take off them locally -- things like overfishing, sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution, dredging, coastal construction --
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Where will you be able...
and building up low-lying areas of land with dredged sand to shield themselves against storms and rising sea levels. And the islands’ governments have repeatedly lobbied on the global stage for countries with the highest emissions to reduce pollution and take responsibility for climate change.
Video examples
Coral Reef Ocean...
absolutely so let's talk about that i mean what what for you the have you found to be the main threats to our corals of the of the earth and across all our oceans well if we talk very generally and this includes deep corals and cold water corals things like dredging and habitat
Video examples
Dry-docking a Cruise...
Catherine one of four tugs guiding the ship into drydock he needs to keep a close eye on the bays heavy traffic and shallow waters you're not in the channel it's five feet deep yeah it just comes up where they don't have it dredged so you got to know where you are and make
Video examples
The Unexpected,...
And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal works that impacted seagrass. So by the end of the 20th century, we calculated that one-third of the known seagrass areas in the ocean had been lost. And yet efforts to protect them became urgent.
Video examples
A new way to "grow"...
trying to fight against a superdynamic, high-energy problem, and nature is almost always going to win. So that's likely not going to work either. The third approach is using dredging. So dredging is where you suck up a bunch of sand from the deep ocean
Video examples
Protecting Scotland's...
started going back and identifying the same places that we'd filmed while dredging was going on and the recovery since dredging stopped has been fantastic for scallop divers it's also being great for wildlife tourism from
Video examples
Miami's Choice: Bigger...
was not deep enough because of that ports along the eastern seaboard are in a race to get their ports ready and deepened and widened to accommodate these shipping giants the dredging process generates sedimentation in the
Video examples
Where Does Your Sewage...
surface while a second submerged blade dredges the heavier settled sludge from the bottom of the tank all this solid sludge is then sent for further processing the remaining sewage then flows down
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Tim Daly
American Actor
One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things.
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Jane Lynch
American Actress
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
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Richard Linklater
American Director
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
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Chirlane McCray
American Writer
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.
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Amanda Harlech
English Writer
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
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Ian Mcewan
British Author
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Kari Skogland
And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.
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Shane Koyczan
Canadian Writer
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
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Ander Crenshaw
American Politician
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.
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Tim Daly
American Actor
One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things.
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Jane Lynch
American Actress
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.
Quote examples
Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
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Richard Linklater
American Director
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
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Chirlane McCray
American Writer
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.
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Amanda Harlech
English Writer
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
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Ian Mcewan
British Author
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
Quote examples
Kari Skogland
And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.
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Shane Koyczan
Canadian Writer
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
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Ander Crenshaw
American Politician
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.
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