dredge up

dredge up

vb (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. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) to raise with or as if with a dredge they dredged up the corpse from the lake

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

dredge up - mention something unpleasant from the past; "Drag up old stories" drag up cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up - make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"

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dredge up

verb (Informal) dig up, raise, rake up, discover, uncover, draw up, unearth, drag up, fish up She dredged up a minor misdemeanour.

Translations

? dredge up

vt sep (lit) → ausbaggern; (fig) unpleasant facts, painful memories → ans Licht holen, hervorkramen