|Origin:||Perhaps from Old English dragan 'to pull'| 1
[intransitive and transitive]TTWTEC to remove mud or sand from
the bottom of a river, harbour etc, or to search for something
by doing this: They dredged for oysters. 2 [transitive + with]DF
to cover food lightly with flour, sugar etc dredge something ↔
upphrasal verb to start talking again about something that
happened a long time ago, especially something unpleasant:
Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which he made last
year. to manage to remember something, or to feel or express an
emotion, with difficulty: Robertson tried to dredge up an image
of her in his mind. From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant
smile. to pull something up from the bottom of a river, lake etc