Definitions for irrigates

irrigates ir·ri·gate

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

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

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in irrigates (aegiirrst).

Definitions for irrigates

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 irrigates

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 irrigates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for irrigates
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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