1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Irrigate

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.

v. To wash out (a body cavity or wound) with water or a medicated fluid.

v. To make fertile or vital as if by watering.

verb-intransitive. To supply land with water artificially.

v. To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.

v. To clean a wound with a fluid

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

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

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

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.

v. supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting

v. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

"Today, one of the world's oldest settled areas, where men first learned to irrigate, is a man-made desert."

irrigated irrigates irrigating

Words that are more generic or abstract

care for treat

Words with the same meaning

water wet bedew wash