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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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A 4-mg solution of papaverine is used to irrigate vessels in the event of vasospasms.
For millennia farmers have had to stretch water resources to irrigate their crops.
Irrigation before planting may work better than trying to irrigate the cover crop up.
The canal has a total capacity of 30 cusecs of water, which would irrigate about 11,500 kanals of wasteland under Warila Pass.
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.
If you irrigate, and your water is also alkaline, acidify it with 2 teaspoons of vinegar per gallon of water.

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