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Meaning of Dredging | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. That which is dredged up.
  2. The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.
    uncountable

Equivalents

العربية الجرف تجريف
Català dragatge
Suomi ruoppaus
Français dragage
Italiano dragaggio
日本語 浚渫
Português dragagem

Examples

“Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

dredging box dree Dreeite Dreeite South dreen Drees

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