DREDGING Synonyms

• the act of digging

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

• cover before cooking

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

• remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

• the act of removing the contents of something

• the act of separating grain from chaff

• recover through digging

• find by digging in the ground

• form by hollowing

• remove the inner part or the core of

• a large quantity of written matter

• a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires

• squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer

• remove by making a hole or by boring

• enlarge with a reamer

• the quantity a scoop will hold

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

• a large ladle

• take out or up with or as if with a scoop

• get the better of

• the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

• something that slows or delays progress

• something tedious and boring

• clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• the act of dragging (pulling with force)

• pull, as against a resistance

• draw slowly or heavily

• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• move slowly and as if with great effort

• to lag or linger behind

• suck in or take (air)

• use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it

• walk without lifting the feet

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

• persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

• proceed for an extended period of time