dredge up

verb

1. to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source

   to dredge up worthless ideas

2. to raise with or as if with a dredge

   they dredged up the corpse from the lake

Related Words

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• bring to light 
• determine 
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• expose 
• find 
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• reveal 
• uncover