dredge
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- 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
- We had to dredge a place for it to rest, we had to park it, guard it, stroke it, hide it from the public.
- The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns.
- For them, all these courtroom machinations just dredge up their heartache and forestall closure.