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PRONUNCIATION OF DREDGE UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREDGE UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dredge up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dredge up in English.

WHAT DOES DREDGE UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dredge up in the English dictionary

The definition of dredge up in the dictionary is to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source. Other definition of dredge up is to raise with or as if with a dredge.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DREDGE UP

PRESENT

Present
I dredge up
you dredge up
he/she/it dredges up
we dredge up
you dredge up
they dredge up
Present continuous
I am dredging up
you are dredging up
he/she/it is dredging up
we are dredging up
you are dredging up
they are dredging up
Present perfect
I have dredged up
you have dredged up
he/she/it has dredged up
we have dredged up
you have dredged up
they have dredged up
Present perfect continuous
I have been dredging up
you have been dredging up
he/she/it has been dredging up
we have been dredging up
you have been dredging up
they have been dredging up
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dredged up
you dredged up
he/she/it dredged up
we dredged up
you dredged up
they dredged up
Past continuous
I was dredging up
you were dredging up
he/she/it was dredging up
we were dredging up
you were dredging up
they were dredging up
Past perfect
I had dredged up
you had dredged up
he/she/it had dredged up
we had dredged up
you had dredged up
they had dredged up
Past perfect continuous
I had been dredging up
you had been dredging up
he/she/it had been dredging up
we had been dredging up
you had been dredging up
they had been dredging up
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dredge up
you will dredge up
he/she/it will dredge up
we will dredge up
you will dredge up
they will dredge up
Future continuous
I will be dredging up
you will be dredging up
he/she/it will be dredging up
we will be dredging up
you will be dredging up
they will be dredging up
Future perfect
I will have dredged up
you will have dredged up
he/she/it will have dredged up
we will have dredged up
you will have dredged up
they will have dredged up
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dredging up
you will have been dredging up
he/she/it will have been dredging up
we will have been dredging up
you will have been dredging up
they will have been dredging up
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dredge up
you would dredge up
he/she/it would dredge up
we would dredge up
you would dredge up
they would dredge up
Conditional continuous
I would be dredging up
you would be dredging up
he/she/it would be dredging up
we would be dredging up
you would be dredging up
they would be dredging up
Conditional perfect
I would have dredge up
you would have dredge up
he/she/it would have dredge up
we would have dredge up
you would have dredge up
they would have dredge up
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dredging up
you would have been dredging up
he/she/it would have been dredging up
we would have been dredging up
you would have been dredging up
they would have been dredging up
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dredge up
we let´s dredge up
you dredge up
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dredge up
Past participle
dredged up
Present Participle
dredging up
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREDGE UP

drearily
dreariment
dreariness
drearing
drearisome
dreary
dreck
drecksill
drecky
dredge
dredger
dredging
dree
dree one´s weird
dreg
dreggier
dreggiest
dregginess
dreggish
dreggy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREDGE UP

be made up
change up
come up
double up
give up
have up
lace up
live up
manage up
measure up
pile up
shake up
shape up
size up
sunny-side up
take up
tie up
tune up
use up
write up

Synonyms and antonyms of dredge up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DREDGE UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dredge up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dredge up

Translation of «dredge up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREDGE UP

Find out the translation of dredge up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dredge up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dredge up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

疏浚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dragar
570 millions of speakers

English

dredge up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर छिड़कना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إثارة نعرات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вытащить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desenterrar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপ ঝালা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

draguer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengorek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausgraben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

蒸し返す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

준설
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nggedhekake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nạo vét lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூக்கி எறியுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रेज अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Taramak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dragare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pogłębiarka się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

витягнути
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

draga sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πασπαλίζουμε πάνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opdiep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

muddra upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mudre opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dredge up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREDGE UP»

The term «dredge up» is regularly used and occupies the 85.868 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREDGE UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dredge up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dredge up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dredge up

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREDGE UP»

Discover the use of dredge up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dredge up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Evolution of Peculiar Red Giant Stars: Proceedings of the ...
Shortly after entry onto the AGB (which coincides with the second dredge-up in sufficiently massive stars), low- and intermediate-mass stars undergo a succession of dredge-ups resulting from thermal pulsing, which penetrate down to layers ...
International Astronomical Union. Colloquium, Hollis Ralph Johnson, Ben Zuckerman, 1989
2
Elements and the Cosmos
4 THE FIRST DREDGE-UP On exhaustion of H in the core, a main sequence star evolves to the red giant branch (RGB). At the base of the RGB, the star develops a deep convective envelope that extends down into layers that, on the main ...
M. G. Edmunds, R. J. Terlevich, 1992
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Nuclei in the Cosmos V: Proceedings of the International ...
Some considerations about the dredge-up process in asymptotic giant branch stars are presented, and the status of current predictions discussed. The possible role of dredge-up for fluorine and s-process nucleosynthesis in those stars is also  ...
Nikos Prantzos, Sotiris Harissopulos, 1998
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Stellar Evolution, Stellar Explosions, and Galactic Chemical ...
This situation has been investigated in some detail by Frost and Lattanzio (1996) who found that the depth of dredge-up depends critically on assumptions made at the boundary of the convective region, as well as on the way in which the ...
Mezzacappa, 1998
5
Physics, Formation and Evolution of Rotating Stars
Dredge-Up. and. TP-AGB. Nucleosynthesis. Figure 26.15 shows that after the disappearance of the intershell convective zone, the external convective zone ( CZ) may deepen again (this is a critical point depending on convective parameters ...
Andre Maeder, 2008
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Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
3.3.8.1 The Third Dredge-Up A synthetic treatment of the third dredge-up requires three basic inputs: q the minimum core mass MTM'n for dredge-up to occur; q the efficiency A; • the chemical composition of the material being dredged up.
Harm J. Habing, Hans Olofsson, 2004
7
The Influence of Binaries on Stellar Population Studies
6) Finally, I mention the third dredge-up itself as a process which impacts nucleosynthesis in AGB stars. We have seen (point 3) that it induces the production of primary 13C in the intershell layers. In addition, it can have a feedback on the ...
D. Vanbeveren, 2001
8
The Magellanic Clouds
Walton et al. have estimated the surface carbon abundance enhancements due to the third dredge-up, by subtracting from the observed nebular carbon abundances the residual initial carbon abundances implied by the first dredge-up C— »N ...
Raymond Haynes, Douglas Milne, 1991
9
Cosmochemistry: The Melting Pot of the Elements
experienced H-burning (first dredge up), and brings up processed material to the surface. This material is mainly 14N. 13C, 12C, and 4He (Renzini & Voli 1981). The ascent on the giant branch is terminated by ignition of the central helium.
C. Esteban, R. J. García López, A. Herrero, 2004
10
Post-AGB Objects as a Phase of Stellar Evolution
We found in our calculations of AGB models with overshoot that dredge-up is much more efficient if overshoot is not only applied to the bottom of the envelope convection zone but as well to the He-flash convection zone in the intershell during ...
R. Szczerba, S.K. Górny, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREDGE UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dredge up is used in the context of the following news items.
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Gwangyang to dredge third fairway
There is a thus a need to dredge up the sediments to enable ships of over 250,000 dwt to call at Gwangyang," said the office. The fairway would ... «IHS Maritime 360, Jul 15»
2
Texas State Athletics - On Athletic Director Larry Teis, Part 2
It may seem a bit dated to dredge up Teis's mistakes made up to 8 years ago, but these past missteps are indicative of the longstanding ... «Underdog Dynasty, Jul 15»
3
A Conversation With the Psychologist Behind 'Inside Out'
... from the past, and I'll tend to dredge up more shameful qualities of the experience, compared to if I was feeling proud or jealous or whatever. «Pacific Standard, Jul 15»
4
Australia's Great Barrier Reef outlook poor but not “in danger …
... pushing ahead with the Galilee Basin mega mines to dredge up coastal Reef ecosystems and turn the Reef into a coal ship super highway. «The Bell Jar, Jul 15»
5
The Idiot Thug Running Maine
... bound to dredge up something unsavory. For LePage that sort of thinking doesn't seem to be just a metaphor, but an actual governing policy. «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
6
Author bites into mental health with new book 'Happy Apples'
She said many counselling techniques, such as those which ask people to "dredge up" upsetting problems and help the person find a solution, ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Jul 15»
7
Pulley: Remembering the details; searching for the essence
I tried to dredge up those childhood emotions, thinking I had, until I went back. Looking for Municipal Stadium on Brooklyn Avenue, I found it ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jul 15»
8
Eye on the Ball: The lessons of Little League
In my mind I do seem to dredge up the names of all the kids, my coaches, our trips to ballparks and all the fun I had playing baseball. It always ... «Shelter Island Reporter, Jul 15»
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Will California's new water restrictions ease its historic drought?
... Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — driving farmers there to join those in the Central Valley in the race to dredge up more water from the ... «PBS NewsHour, Jul 15»
10
No longer fused at the hip, Venus and Serena Williams prep for a …
There is too much mutual respect involved to dredge up the inner fire that scorched Watson. This next match may well be more about tennis, ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»

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