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1. phrasal verbIf someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they dredge up a distant memory, they manage to remember it. ...an American trying to dredge up some French or German learned in high school. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The fragments of memory she dredges up do not fit together. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] [Also VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verbIf someone dredges up a damaging or upsetting fact about your past, they remind you of it or tell other people about it. I wouldn't want to dredge up the past. [VERB PARTICLE noun] It's the media who keep dredging it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] More Synonyms of dredge up See full dictionary entry for dredgedredge up in British Englishverb (tr, adverb)1. to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source to dredge up worthless ideas 2. to raise with or as if with a dredge they dredged up the corpse from the lake Examples of 'dredge up' in a sentencedredge up Definition to remember (something obscure or half-forgotten) (informal) She dredged up a minor misdemeanour. Synonyms dig up raise rake up draw up drag up fish up Additional synonymsDefinition to find after study or search The suitcase was discovered on a roadside outside the city. Synonyms find, come across, uncover, track down, unearth, turn up, dig up, come upon, chance on, stumble on, bring to light, light upon Definition to reveal or disclose Auditors said they had uncovered evidence of fraud. Synonyms reveal, find, discover, expose, encounter, turn up, detect, disclose, unveil, come across, unearth, dig up, divulge, chance on, root out, unmask, lay bare, make known, blow the whistle on (informal), bring to light, smoke out, take the wraps off, blow wide open (slang), stumble on or across Definition to dig up out of the earth Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant. Synonyms dig up, excavate, exhume, dredge up (informal), disinter- dreamlike
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