Irrigate

ahd-5
  • intransitive verb. To supply (land or crops) with water by means of pipes, sprinklers, ditches, or streams.
  • intransitive verb. To wash out (a body cavity or wound) with water or a medicated fluid.
  • intransitive verb. To irrigate land or crops.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pass a liquid over or through; moisten by a flow of water or other liquid.
  • Specifically—2. To water, as land, by causing a stream or streams to be distributed over it. See irrigation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
  • transitive verb. To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
  • transitive verb. To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow or spray of a liquid.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
  • verb. To clean a wound with a fluid
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
  • verb. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
    • Word Usage
    "Today, one of the world's oldest settled areas, where men first learned to irrigate, is a man-made desert."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    care for  treat  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adulterate  asperge  attenuate  baptize  bath  
    verb-form
    irrigated  irrigates  irrigating  
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.