dredge vs drudge vs trudge :

dredge or drudge or trudge

You use machinery to scoop stuff up from underwater—called a dredge—to dredge up gunk or debris from the bottom of a river or lake. Metaphorically, you also dredge up old memories, the past, or objects buried in the mess in your room.To drudge is to do hard, annoying work; and a person who does such work can also be called a “drudge.” If you find yourself saying “drudge up” about anything you’re trying to uncover you almost certainly should be using “dredge up” instead. When you slog laboriously up a hill, you trudge up it. Trudging may be drudgery; but the act of walking a difficult path is not drudging, but trudging.And you cooks wondering whether dredging a chicken breast with flour has anything to do with river-bottom dredging will be relieved to know it does not. The two words have completely different origins (“sprinkling” vs. “scooping”).

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Definitions

  • n  a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
  • v  cover before cooking
    dredge the chicken in flour before frying it
  • v  search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
  • v  remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

  • n  one who works hard at boring tasks
  • n  a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
  • v  work hard
    Lexicographers drudge all day long

  • n  a long difficult walk
  • v  walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
News & Articles

  • Permit sought to fix damaged fishpond
    Waikoloa Development Co. is seeking a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to rebuild the Kuualii fishpond rock wall, dredge sand from the pond and restore the beach at Anaehoomalu Bay in South Kohala. The rock wall and 4-acre pond were damaged by the March 11, 2011, tsunami generated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan.
    June 16, 2013 - West Hawaii Today
  • Terrebonne Parish to implement freshwater plan
    Terrebonne Parish officials are moving ahead with a project designed to dump freshwater from the Houma Navigation Canal into endangered coastal forests north of the Falgout Canal.The Courier reports (http://bit.ly/17ECLRI) the project will replace aging water-control structures and dredge canals...
    June 15, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
  • Rain halts dredging of Hudson River
    High water from this week’s heavy rain stopped efforts to dredge PCBs from the Hudson River until at least noon Friday, during a season in which rain has often helped rather than hindered the project.
    June 14, 2013 - The Post-Star

  • Free Beacon latest conservative outlet attacked by hackers after Drudge hits
    The Washington Free Beacon yesterday became the latest victim in a wave of cyber attacks targeting conservative news outlets. The Beacon, in what appears to be a coordinated assault, joined National Journal and radio station WTOP as a target after certain articles were featured on the Drudge Report, one of ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Washington Times
  • Neil Patrick Harris Said A Word That Rhymed With The N-Word Last Night
    Did nothing interesting at all happen at the Tonys last night? Because all we're hearing about is how Neil Patrick Harris said a word that to some people sounded like the N-word even though it wasn't. BREAKING NEWS DRUDGE SIREN ALERT. The moment some are scrutinizing can be seen below, when NPH sings alongside Mike Tyson in his stellar opening performance, belting out the words: "And make things ...
    June 10, 2013 - Gothamist
  • Neil Patrick Harris Said A Word That Rhymed With The N-Word Last Night
    Did nothing interesting at all happen at the Tonys last night? Because all we're hearing about is how Neil Patrick Harris said a word that to some people sounded like the N-word even though it wasn't. BREAKING NEWS DRUDGE SIREN ALERT. The moment some are scrutinizing can be seen below, when NPH sings alongside Mike Tyson in his stellar opening performance, belting out the words: "And make things ...
    June 10, 2013 - Gothamist

  • U.S. stocks start higher on May job additions
    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday, denting weekly losses, as employment rose more-than-expected in May, underlining thinking the economy continues to grow. "The labor market continues to trudge forward at a solid, though unspectacular, pace - not unlike the economy as a whole," Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Morgan Financial Advisers, noted in emailed ...
    June 7, 2013 - Market Watch
  • U.S. stocks start higher on May job additions
    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday, denting weekly losses, as employment rose more-than-expected in May, underlining thinking the economy continues to grow. "The labor market continues to trudge forward at a solid, though unspectacular, pace - not unlike the economy as a whole," Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Morgan Financial Advisers, noted in emailed ...
    June 7, 2013 - Market Watch