|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