Irrigate
['ɪrɪgeɪt] or ['ɪrəget]
Definition
(verb.) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; 'irrigate the wound'.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
(v. t.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
Edited by Jimmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Water, moisten, wet.
Checked by Beth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Water, wet, inundate, submerge
ANT:Dry, drain, parch
Typist: Tabitha
Definition
v.t. to water: to wet or moisten: to cause water to flow upon.—adj. Irr′igable capable of being irrigated.—ns. Irrigā′tion a method of producing or increasing fertility in soils by an artificial supply of water or by inundating them at stated periods: act of watering esp. of watering lands artificially; Irrigat′or one who or that which irrigates: an appliance for washing a wound &c.—adj. Irrig′uous watered: wet.
Editor: Tracy
Examples
- He gathered Jewish and Moslem as well as Christian philosophers at his court, and he did much to irrigate the Italian mind with Saracenic influences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He hunted and played and went about in his sunny world of gardens and groves and irrigated rice-fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many irrigating systems use centrifugal pumps to force water over long distances and to supply it in quantities sufficient for vast agricultural needs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is as if social life were prevented from irrigating political thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Rupert