verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks.
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Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.
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It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation.
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Suddenly, it dredges up ghosts weighted down and buried in haste after a fierce battle.
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Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter.
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She dredged up her past, recalling the girl who had been Jazzbeaux, who had been a War Chief.
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He has consulted local lawyers and barbers, dredged up letters, recorded reminiscences.
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And while she walked or sat with him, she thought, pondered her life, dredged up scenes, remembered.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fearing more floods, the state had the river dredged.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation.
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Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.
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Others specialize in dredging operations required for bridges and dams or for harbors.
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That dredging is now behind schedule.
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The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.