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dredging up

dredging up is the present participle and gerund of dredge up.

Meaning of dredge up

Verb

dredge up (third-person singular simple present dredges up, present participle dredging up, simple past and past participle dredged up)

  1. (figuratively) To find by diligently searching, especially from unsavory sources.
    • Where did you dredge up the idea that they didn't know what hospital he was born in?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dredge, up.
    • Young, dense seed mussels are dredged up and relaid in more sheltered areas, where they will not be destroyed by storms.1970, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, The international wildlife encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1713

Questions about dredging up

What is dredging up the present participle and gerund of?
Dredging up is the present participle and gerund of dredge up.

Words near dredging up in the dictionary

  1. dredges
  2. dredges up
  3. dredging
  4. dredging box
  5. dredging boxes
  6. dredging up
  7. dredgings
  8. dredlocks
  9. dreds
  10. dree
  11. dree one's weird

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