dredge up

1. 1.

   mention something unpleasant from the past

   “Drag up old stories”

   Synonymsdrag up

   Broadermention

Questions about dredge up

What does dredge up mean?

dredge up means "mention something unpleasant from the past".

What is another word for dredge up?

Close synonyms include drag up. 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 up a common word?

dredge up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.