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What does irrigate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word irrigate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
  2. (transitive) To clean (a wound) with a fluid.
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While rainfall registers about 50 inches per year, growers often have to irrigate their crops during extended drought periods.
For millennia farmers have had to stretch water resources to irrigate their crops.
Up to 99 percent of the water in the perennial rivers of the Chihuahuan Desert is diverted to municipal water supplies or to irrigate fields.
With a narrow-nose watering can, irrigate just inside the pot rim, under plant leaves.
It allows people to irrigate their farmland, refrigerate their vaccines, and run their machines.
If you irrigate, and your water is also alkaline, acidify it with 2 teaspoons of vinegar per gallon of water.

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