dredge up

phrasal verb

dredged up; dredging up; dredges up

: to start talking or thinking again about (something unpleasant that happened a long time ago)

Reporters dredged up the fact that the senator avoided the military draft.

She didn't like to dredge up bad memories.

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This is just dredging up something, try to smear and discredit a candidate. —

Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024 Sometimes these sorts of shocks and traumas dredge up shocks and traumas from our past. —

Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2024 In his mind, playing these new, modernized entries can sometimes dredge up curiosity for gaming’s past in new players. —

Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024 The debate has dredged up the contentious history of how Dutch police and security services colluded with German invaders by handing over lists of radical and left-leaning political opponents. —

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