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US
/ˈdɹɛdʒ/
]
[ UK /dɹˈɛdʒ/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈɛdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
VERB
-
cover before cooking
dredge the chicken in flour before frying it - remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
How To Use dredge In A Sentence
- But look, when are we going to say that things that have gone on decades ago, or 10 years or more ago, should always be dredged up, just because there might be some political advantage to dredging it up?
- The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
- Our main products are electric drill, marble cutter, angle grinder, rotary hammer, pipe dredger, etc.
- Dredge beef in flour and brown in batches in oil over high heat in a flameproof casserole.
- The dredger, which is powered by 1,600 kilowatts of power, is 100 meters in height and weighs 3,000 tons. Undefined
- I can hardly blame the engineer who designs the hydraulic dredger, nor the driller at Exxon who mines oil for his boat, nor the construction woman who paved the ramp where the clammer launched his boat this morning. Industrialism and clams
- One day, on the mud-flat side of the Rock Wall, an Italian fishing boat hauled up on the sand dredged from the channel. CHAPTER XVI
- Ten years ago, the Persian Gulf War again dredged up anti-Muslim, anti-Arabic fervor and again I was afraid. An American Story | PopPolitics.com
- Do not dredge the pasta in flour to prevent sticking, as the flour turns to glue when cooked and, ironically, causes the pasta to stick together (using semolina flour from Italian delis instead will help).
- That the BP oil spill may be twice as bad as earlier estimates was hard news to hear but no surprise to Christian Delos Reyes, a 39-year-old oyster dredger. Former EPA Chief On Gulf Oil Spill: 'It's Going To Blow The Record Books Up'