irrigate
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That water is then used to irrigate the crops, and that's probably ...
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- transitive verb To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
- transitive verb To wash out (a body cavity or wound) with water or a medicated fluid.
- transitive verb To make fertile or vital as if by watering.
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That water is then used to irrigate the crops, and that's probably ...
— CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008 -
And in fairness you may find rivers like this in the United States, they actually use this water here to irrigate crops.
— CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007 -
There are practical steps we've known about them for years, how to grow more food, how to fight malaria, AIDS, T.B., how to keep children in school with school meal programs, how to get safe drinking water, how to irrigate arid climates with treadle pumps and small scale irrigation.
— CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2005 -
Why do you use it to irrigate crops?
— CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2007 -
Farmers over-irrigate their fields.
— The Rise of Big Water
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- Latin irrigāre, irrigāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + rigāre, to water.
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/ (ĭrˈĭ-gātˌ)/
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