American English pronunciation
How to pronounce dredged
IPA transcription: [d'ɹɛdʒd]
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Verb
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cover before cooking
“dredge the chicken in flour before frying it”
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search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
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remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
Usage examples
- The riverbed sand and gravel could be dredged, but divers extracted the rock manually.
- Recently the riverbed has been dredged, and the two islands have been reformed.