to manage to remember something that you learned or knew long ago
to tell people about something that someone did in the past that they would prefer to keep secret
Clutching the edge of the table I tried to dredge up a manner which could pass for normal.
Details of his previous affairs were dredged up by the media.
`Greens were going to fight the Survivors," he managed to dredge up from a memory not merely foggy but virtually opaque.
`I'm not looking to dredge up a list of past boy friends.
dredges up
dredging up
dredged up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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