irrigate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
    water.
    • Water the fields
  2. verb supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
    • irrigate the wound

WordNet

Ir"ri*gate transitive verb
Etymology
L. irrigatus, p. p. of irrigare to irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain. See Rain.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Irrigated ; present participle & verbal noun Irrigating
Definitions
  1. To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
  2. (Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.

Webster 1913