dredging

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dredging

noun dredgings

  1. That which is dredged up. Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
  2. uncountable The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of dredge

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Closest in meaning: drag, digging, tunnelling, dig, drain, excavation, exhumation, alluvial, chasing, sweeping, dragging, loading, tapping, dating, material, flirting

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verb that which is dredged up

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Françaisdragage
Italianodragaggio

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@misc{dredging_2026,
  title = {dredging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dredging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}