DREDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dredge mean? 

• DREDGE (noun)
  The noun DREDGE has 1 sense:

1. a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

  Familiarity information: DREDGE used as a noun is very rare.

• DREDGE (verb)
  The verb DREDGE has 3 senses:

1. cover before cooking

2. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

3. remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

  Familiarity information: DREDGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dredge" is a kind of...):

digger; excavator; power shovel; shovel (a machine for excavating)

Meronyms (parts of "dredge"):

dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)

scoop; scoop shovel (the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe)

Holonyms ("dredge" is a part of...):

dredger (a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging)

Derivation:

dredge (remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water)

dredge (search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost)

• DREDGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dredge    ... he / she / it dredges   
Past simple: dredged   
Past participle: dredged   
-ing form: dredging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover before cooking

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

dredge the chicken in flour before frying it

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dredge"):

flour (cover with flour)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

drag; dredge

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

The men dredge the area for animals
The men dredge for animals in the area

Derivation:

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

dredger (a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging)

 Context examples 

Scientists surmised that the molecule was spontaneously thrown together within the bellies of these gas giants and, as Sousa-Silva describes, violently dredged up by huge, planet-sized convective storms.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS), the storm swirls in an anti-cyclonic direction and is dredging up material from deep inside the ice giant planet’s atmosphere.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

But like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the dark vortices swirl in an anti-cyclonic direction and seem to dredge up material from deeper levels in the ice giant's atmosphere.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)