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ir⋅ri⋅gate

[ir-i-geyt]
–verb (used with object), -gat⋅ed, -gat⋅ing.
1. to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
2. Medicine/Medical. to supply or wash (an orifice, wound, etc.) with a spray or a flow of some liquid.
3. to moisten; wet.

Origin:
1605–15; < L irrigātus, ptp. of irrigāre to wet, flood, nourish with water, equiv. to ir- ir- 1 + rigā- (s. of rigāre to provide with water, soak) + -tus ptp. suffix
Language Translation for : irrigate
Spanish: regar, irrigar, German: bewässern, Japanese: かんがいする
ir·ri·gate     (ĭr'ĭ-gāt')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   ir·ri·gat·ed, ir·ri·gat·ing, ir·ri·gates

v.   tr.
  1. To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
  2. To wash out (a body cavity or wound) with water or a medicated fluid.
  3. To make fertile or vital as if by watering.

v.   intr.
To supply land with water artificially.


[Latin irrigāre, irrigāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + rigāre, to water.]

ir'ri·ga'tion n., ir'ri·ga'tion·al adj., ir'ri·ga'tor n.

irrigate 
1623, from L. irrigatus, pp. of irrigare "lead water to, refresh," from in- "in" + rigare "to water, to moisten," of uncertain origin, perhaps cognate with O.E. regn "rain."

irrigate

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

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.]

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.

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