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- Dictionaryirrigate/ˈɪrɪɡeɪt/
verb
- 1. supply water to (land or crops) to help growth, typically by means of channels.
- 2. wash out (an organ or wound) with a continuous flow of water or medication.
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IRRIGATE definition: 1. to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow: 2. to wash an injured part of a…. Learn more.
1. : wet, moisten: such as. a. : to supply (land, crops, etc.) with water by artificial means. irrigating the cotton plants. irrigates 20 acres of farmland. b. : to flush (a body part) with a stream of liquid. irrigate the wound with saline solution. the eye was irrigated following chemical exposure. 2. : to refresh as if by watering.
Irrigate definition: to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.. See examples of IRRIGATE used in a sentence.
to wash an injured part of a person's body, especially a cut, with a flow of liquid. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of irrigate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) irrigate | Intermediate English. verb [ T ] us / ˈɪr·əˌɡeɪt /
To irrigate is to supply with water, usually with ditches and channels that allow the water to flow. Irrigating is a type of watering that is important in one field in particular: farming. If a farmer has a huge number of crops, you can see how getting water to them could be difficult.
(ɪrɪgeɪt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense irrigates , present participle irrigating , past tense, past participle irrigated. verb. To irrigate land means to supply it with water in order to help crops grow. None of the water from Lake Powell is used to irrigate the area. [VERB noun]
irrigate something to supply water to an area of land, typically through pipes or channels, so that crops will grow irrigated land/crops The waters in these three rivers irrigate the plains of Punjab.
