irrigate

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  1. transitive verb To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
  2. transitive verb To wash out (a body cavity or wound) with water or a medicated fluid.
  3. transitive verb To make fertile or vital as if by watering.
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  • Then we slowly flood-irrigate the furrows as the soil dries. —  Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
  • Lipp said that although contaminated water used to irrigate or wash produce has been linked to several outbreaks of salmonellosis in recent years, the environmental factors that influence salmonella levels in natural waters are not well understood. —  ENS
  • We irrigate, so we don't have to worry about that. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • Farmers such as Carl Santleben are forced to pre-irrigate before planting crops because the ground is so dry.
  • When they irrigate, some of the treated effluent, aquifer water and fertilizer flows into the river. —  Island Packet: Home
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  1. Latin irrigāre, irrigāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + rigāre, to water.

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  1. from Latin irrigatus, inrigatus, past participle of irrigare, inrigare (later Italian irrigare = French irriguer), bring water to or upon, wet, irrigate, from in, upon, + rigare, water, wet, moisten, akin to English rain, q. v.
 

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