Dredging

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    That which is dredged up.

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

  2. 2
    The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of dredge form-of, gerund, participle, present

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disentanglementdrawingevulsionexcavationexcisionexpression

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"Mounting research blames a confluence of rising sea levels driven by global warming and the damming and dredging of key rivers and their tributaries for the rapid sinking and shrinking of Asia's seven major delta systems, from the Indus in Pakistan to the Pearl in China."

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