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/ˈɪrəgˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Irrigate v. t. (past & past part. irrigated; pres. part. irrigating)

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

(Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.

(Med.) To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow or spray of a liquid.

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Etymology of 'Irrigate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Irrigate" Quotes from Famous Books

... in this way, but they do not understand this kind of reasoning. They cultivate their little patches of maize, by putting a sharp stick into the ground, and dropping the seed into the hole. They carry pots of water to irrigate their ground with, instead of digging trenches. This is the more curious, as at the time of the Conquest irrigation was much practised by the Aztecs in the plains, and remains of water-canals still exist, showing that they had carried ...

— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor

... Langdon, "neither am I killed or mortally wounded. But my feelings are hurt. That bullet, fired by some mill hand who probably never pulled a trigger before, just grazed the top of my head, but it has pumped enough out of my veins to irrigate my face with a beautiful ...

— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

... such an odor from her breath Comes toward me, harbinger of her approach; Or like an untouched meadow, where the rain Hath fallen freshly on the fragrant herbs That carpet all its pure untrodden soil: A meadow where the fragrant rain-drops fall Like coins of silver in the quiet pools, And irrigate it with perpetual streams; A meadow where the sportive insects hum, Like listless topers singing o'er their cups, And ply their forelegs like a man who tries With maimed hands to ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... Lenten season, I had been to see him, little thinking that my next visit was to be the last. My own heart was full of that joy whose overflow Margaret had entrusted to its care—which is a great gift to a minister, this gift of gladness, seeking as he does to irrigate the thirsty plains of life ...

— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles

... could not resist lending their aid also. What stimulated the haste of Clearchus was the suspicion in his mind that these trenches were not, as a rule, so full of water, since it was not the season to irrigate the plain; and he fancied that the king had let the water on for the express purpose of vividly presenting to the Hellenes the many dangers with which their march was threatened at the ...

— Anabasis • Xenophon

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