Definitions for irrigate

irrigate ir·ri·gate

Spelling: [ir-i-geyt]
IPA: /ˈɪr ɪˌgeɪt/

Irrigate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in irrigate (aegiirrt).

Definitions for irrigate

verb (used with object)

  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 of irrigate

1605-15; Latin irrigātus, past participle of irrigāre to wet, flood, nourish with water, equivalent to ir- ir-1 + rigā- (stem of rigāre to provide with water

Examples for irrigate

That is why I do not irrigate the fields oftener than is absolutely necessary.

As a consequence of the union of the gods, water flowed to irrigate the land.

He expects some time to pipe it down to town and irrigate a tract of land.

The farmers in Egypt irrigate in the same way as the ryots of India.

Thus it will be seen that abundant fall is obtainable to irrigate all the lands adjacent.

The children of the desert had learned to irrigate their dusty fields.

Treadle water pumps in Africa and Asia allowed women farmers to irrigate small plots and increase their harvests and incomes.

Each has a cabin in which the rancher lives while they irrigate and make hay.

In this way, step by step, we irrigate all that may be reached by a single gutter.

He knew his gift was to irrigate, as he said—to suggest and stimulate.

Word Value for irrigate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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