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Dredge Up
see synonyms of dredge upVerb
1. drag up, dredge up
mention something unpleasant from the past
Example Sentences:'Drag up old stories'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Dredge Up
see synonyms of dredge upverb (tr, adverb)
1.
to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source
to dredge up worthless ideas
2.
to raise with or as if with a dredge
they dredged up the corpse from the lake
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