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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

... uphold his authority at any cost in the presence of the other tenants, Cabesang Tales rebelled and refused to pay a single cuarto, having ever before himself that red mist, saying that he would give up his fields to the first man who could irrigate it with blood drawn ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... build large dams, and hold the water back in big ponds or lakes so it will last from one rainy season to another. The water is let run from the lake through little ditches, or pipes, so that the thirsty plants may drink. This is called the irrigation method, for to irrigate means to wet, soak or moisten with water. Each farmer or gardener is allowed to buy as much water as he needs, opening little gates at the ends of the main ditches or sluices, and letting the water run over his dry ground, in which he has dug furrows ...

— Daddy Takes Us to the Garden - The Daddy Series for Little Folks • Howard R. Garis

... been aware of the dangers of overcrowding, and at all times have occupied themselves with the founding of new settlements to receive the surplus population from the centres already in activity. It is for this reason that the church has been so urgent in seeking and demanding new territory to irrigate and cultivate, in Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, and even as far afield as Canada. The transplanting of a swarm from the parent hive is undertaken with the greatest care. Let us take for example the colonisation of the Big Horn Valley, in the north of Wyoming. Before coming ...

— Modern Saints and Seers • Jean Finot

... which are all right and legitimate when they are lower, are largely hustling the higher ones into the background, and that the river has got so many ponds to fill, and so many canals to trickle through, and so many plantations to irrigate and make verdant, that there is a danger of its falling low at its fountain, and running shallow in its course. One sometimes would like to see more things done for Him that the world would call 'utter folly,' and 'prodigal waste,' and 'absolutely useless.' Jesus Christ has a great ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... and emptied it into a trough above, as they went over. From this trough there was a circular pipe, made very strong, which conveyed the water by a subterranean aqueduct into the field opposite, where it rose into a reservoir by the pressure of the column in the pipe, and was used to irrigate the ground. ...

— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott

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