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Dragging vs Dredging - What's the difference?

dragging | dredging |

As verbs the difference between dragging and dredging

is that dragging is while dredging is .

As nouns the difference between dragging and dredging

is that dragging is an instance of something being dragged while dredging is that which is dredged up.

dragging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of something being dragged.
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    • 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.