- To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping
water; to bedew. - To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon,
over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
Meaning of 'irrigate' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . irrigate
[ v]
Meaning (1): - supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
Example in sentence:
irrigate the wound
Meaning (2): - supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams