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| | {{head|en|verb|head=[[dredge]] [[up]]}} | | {{head|en|verb|head=[[dredge]] [[up]]}} |
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| − | # {{rfv-sense}} {{&lit|dredge|up}} | + | # {{&lit|dredge|up}} |
| | #* {{quote-book|title=The international wildlife encyclopedia|volume=1|page=1713|author=Maurice Burton, Robert Burton|year=1970|passage=Young, dense seed mussels are '''dredged up''' and relaid in more sheltered areas, where they will not be destroyed by storms.}} | | #* {{quote-book|title=The international wildlife encyclopedia|volume=1|page=1713|author=Maurice Burton, Robert Burton|year=1970|passage=Young, dense seed mussels are '''dredged up''' and relaid in more sheltered areas, where they will not be destroyed by storms.}} |
| | #* {{quote-book|title=Bulls, bears, and elephants: a history of the New Zealand Stock Exchange|page=91|author=David Malcolm Grant|year=1997|passage=The rush to dredge resulted in engineering problems, with those who had not first ascertained the depth of the wash by boring later '''dredging up''' only buckets of water.}} | | #* {{quote-book|title=Bulls, bears, and elephants: a history of the New Zealand Stock Exchange|page=91|author=David Malcolm Grant|year=1997|passage=The rush to dredge resulted in engineering problems, with those who had not first ascertained the depth of the wash by boring later '''dredging up''' only buckets of water.}} |
| | #* {{quote-journal|journal=Anthropologica|year=2002|page=92|volume=44|number=1|passage=The soil '''dredged up''' was dumped on the lagoon's shores, which also destroyed large sections of the nearby mangroves and fresh water sources that provide nutrients and oxygen to the local ecosystem}} | | #* {{quote-journal|journal=Anthropologica|year=2002|page=92|volume=44|number=1|passage=The soil '''dredged up''' was dumped on the lagoon's shores, which also destroyed large sections of the nearby mangroves and fresh water sources that provide nutrients and oxygen to the local ecosystem}} |
| − | # {{rfv-sense}} To [[dig up]]. | |
| | # {{figuratively}} To find by diligent search, especially from unsavory sources. | | # {{figuratively}} To find by diligent search, especially from unsavory sources. |
| | #: ''Where did you '''dredge up''' the idea that they didn't know what hospital he was born in.'' | | #: ''Where did you '''dredge up''' the idea that they didn't know what hospital he was born in.'' |
