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Deepening vs Dredging - What's the difference?

deepening | dredging |

As verbs the difference between deepening and dredging

is that deepening is while dredging is .

As nouns the difference between deepening and dredging

is that deepening is the act of becoming deeper while dredging is that which is dredged up.

deepening

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming deeper.
  • * 1972 , H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future (volume 1, page 408)
  • Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain

    dredging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is dredged up.
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
  • Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
  • (uncountable) the act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.