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DREDGE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dredge up mean? 

DREDGE UP (verb)
  The verb DREDGE UP has 1 sense:

1. mention something unpleasant from the pastplay

  Familiarity information: DREDGE UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DREDGE UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mention something unpleasant from the past

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

drag up; dredge up

Context example:

Drag up old stories

Hypernyms (to "dredge up" is one way to...):

advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE


 Context examples 


But like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the dark vortices swirl in an anti-cyclonic direction and seem to dredge up material from deeper levels in the ice giant's atmosphere.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)



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