dredge up

• Фразовый глагол, означающий поднять что-то со дна водоёма или, в переносном смысле, вспомнить или возродить что-то неприятное или забытое из прошлого.

A phrasal verb meaning to bring something up from the bottom of a body of water, or figuratively, to recall or revive something unpleasant or forgotten from the past.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Bring up unpleasant memoriesinformal

   To recall or mention something unpleasant or forgotten from the past.

   Вспоминать неприятное

   • The interview dredged up painful memories of her childhood.
   • He always dredges up old arguments during family dinners.
   • The documentary dredged up forgotten scandals from the 1980s.

   Synonymsconjure updig uprake upresurrectreviveunearth

   Antonymsburyforgetrepresssuppress

2. Search and retrieveformal

   To search for and bring something to the surface, often from a body of water.

   Извлекать со дна

   • The team dredged up the sunken ship from the ocean floor.
   • They dredged up mud and debris from the riverbed.
   • The police dredged up evidence from the lake.

   Synonymsbring uphaul uppull outrecoverretrievesalvage

   Antonymsburysinksubmerge

Base verbdredge