0 present participle of irrigate --
1 to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow: --
2 to wash an injured part of a person's body, especially a cut, with a flow of liquid --
We have spent millions in irrigating the desert to grow cotton.
They were irrigating, running with buckets of water slung on a carrier over the shoulders.
Vast grain storage schemes have been put up, and some farmers have entered into enormous irrigating schemes, sometimes costing £5,000 or £6,000.
I believe that where there are wounds they can best be cured by opening them up and letting the air into them and irrigating them.
Sooner or later we shall be able to distil sea water into fresh water for the purpose of irrigating deserts.
In most developed countries irrigating wastes on to nearby land ceased early this century in favour of engineered solutions such as the activated sludge process.
The most frequent activity was irrigating.
This typically involves adding appropriate amounts of water (irrigating) and nutrients (fertilizing), and maximizing substrate-microbe contact (periodic tilling) to further stimulate microbial activity and contaminant degradation.
