DREDGE UP


Meaning of DREDGE UP in English

1.

If someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they ~ a distant memory, they manage to remember it.

...an American trying to ~ some French or German learned in high school...

PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

2.

If someone dredges up a damaging or upsetting fact about your past, they remind you of it or tell other people about it.

I wouldn’t want to ~ the past...

It’s the media who keep dredging it up.

PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .