dredge

1. 1.

   a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

   Broaderpower shovel

   Part ofdredger

   Partsdredging bucketscoop

Other forms of dredge

plural

dredges·

past tense

dredged·

present participle

dredging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dredge

What does dredge mean?

dredge means "cover before cooking". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dredge?

dredge has 1 syllable: dredge. In IPA it is /ˈdɹɛdʒ/.

What is another word for dredge?

Close synonyms include drag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dredge a common word?

dredge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.