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DREDGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dredge" is a kind of...):

digger; excavator; power shovel; shovel (a machine for excavating)

Meronyms (parts of "dredge"):

dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)

scoop; scoop shovel (the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe)

Holonyms ("dredge" is a part of...):

dredger (a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging)

Derivation:

dredge (remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water)

dredge (search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

dredger (a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

Synonyms:

drag; dredge

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

The men dredge the area for animals

The men dredge for animals in the area

Derivation:

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover before cooking

Example:

dredge the chicken in flour before frying it

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dredge"):

flour (cover with flour)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

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