Crossword clues for irrigate
irrigate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irrigate \Ir"ri*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Irrigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Irrigating.] [L. irrigatus, p. p. of irrigare to irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain. See Rain.]
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"supply land with water," 1610s, from Latin irrigatus, past participle of irrigare "lead water to, refresh, irrigate, flood," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + rigare "to water, to moisten," of uncertain origin, perhaps cognate with rain. Related: Irrigated; irrigating. In Middle English it was an adjective, "watered, flooded" (mid-15c.).\n
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc. 2 To clean a wound with a fluid.
WordNet
v. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" [syn: water]
supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound"
Usage examples of "irrigate".
Hatch reached for his bag, rummaged inside, irrigated the cut with saline solution and Betadine, then smeared on some topical antibacterial ointment.
I visualized the fantasies of contented paedophiliacs, hiring the deformed bodies of children injured in crashes, assuaging and irrigating their wounds with their own scarred genital organs, of elderly pederasts easing their tongues into the simulated anuses of colostomized juveniles.
He crossed one field, then another, climbing through barbed wire fences, his beer and Slim Jims hi a bag cradled carefully hi one arm, and, traversing a mile of fallow, though once irrigated, earth, he reached the sage.
All that hot summer they had played at living the country life: He and Lukan had gone fishing in the weed-choked little river that irrigated the vineyards and Elysia had painted, wandering off through the fields with her sketchbook, easel, and parasol.
A 25,000-gallon cistern that collects house wastewater and rainwater for reuse in irrigating the gardens.
The staffs of the water districts are handcuffed because board members are political appointees who know more about irrigating campaign treasuries than vegetable fields.
Jose Mon-dragon has went and cut water into a beanfield he owns on the west side of town, and you called us together right now because you got an uncomfortable inkling that that man irrigating that field at this particular time spells Trouble with a capital T--am I right?
Mondragon irrigating that beanfield with the dead sow off in a corner he stopped and ripped off a chamber load at our hero from a distance of about thirty yards.
Whether this would be a wise move or not, especially if others in Milagro were willing to irrigate that beanfield, ,was another question.
Until she could accumulate the money to have Havenhurst properly irrigated, as it should have been long ago, it could never be productive enough to attract cottagers and support itself.
My kind savvies any halfway sensible-acting cuss with a permanent address and irrigated croplands marked by boundaries anyone of goodwill can agree on.
Not only do the monsoon rains feed that water-hungry crop but when the rains stop, the flatness of the country makes it easy for farmers to irrigate their fields with water from the always deep, swift, surprisingly cold Ganges River.
Some score of sizable rivers run unutilized in the Province to-day, of which the Talavera alone could irrigate, if put in complete harness, 10,000 hectares of rice land.
It boasted three paved streets, twenty new homes, a half-acre of irrigated grass as park and playground, a general store and late-night grille, a fitness and recreation hall with a first-class minitheater, and the Family Center - one wing of which was a health clinic, and the other a day-care facility.
Beyond the irrigated fields, the rugged natural landscape reasserted itself.