verb

definition

To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.

example

We need to irrigate the land before we plant the crops.

definition

To clean (a wound) with a fluid.

example

The nurse will show you how to irrigate the wound to prevent infection.

Examples of irrigates in a Sentence

The soil, even with little culture, is exceedingly productive, owing to the abundance of water which irrigates and fertilizes it.

The railway from Jodhpur has been extended towards Bhatinda in the Punjab; on the northern border, the Ghaggar canal in the Punjab irrigates about 5000 acres.

The Lower Ganges canal, an extension of the original canal, has been in operation since 1878 and irrigates 830,000 acres.

Here are the headquarters of the Kistna canal system, which irrigates more than 500,000 acres, and also provides navigation throughout the delta.

On the steep sides of valleys the plan is easily and cheaply carried out, and where the whole course of the - water is not long the peculiar properties which give it value, though lessened, are not exhausted when it reaches that part of the meadow which it irrigates last.

This left branch irrigates the Nabari on the high lands bordering the river.

The khedive, having acquired vast estates in the provinces of Assiut, Miniah, BeniSuef and the Fayum, resolved to grow sugar-cane on a very large scale, and with this object constructed a very important perennial canal, named the Ibrahimia, taking out of the left bank of the Nile at the town of Assiut, and flowing parallel to the river for about 200 m., with an important branch which irrigates the Fayum.

Beginning with the Punjab, the province in which most progress has been made, the great Sutlej canal, which irrigates the country to the left of that river, was opened in 1882, and the Western Jumna canal (perhaps the oldest in India) was extended into the dry Hissar and Sirsa districts, and generally improved so as to increase by nearly 5 o% its area of irrigation between 1878 and 1897.

The Bari Doab canal, which irrigates the Gurdaspur, Amritsar and Lahore districts, has been enlarged and extended so as to double its irrigation since it was projected in 1877-1878.

The doctor then irrigates, or flushes, the wound with saline solution forced through a syringe under pressure.

The Ganges canal was opened by Lord Dalhousie in 1854, and irrigates 978,000 acres.

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