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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Irrigate \Ir"ri*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Irrigated}; p. pr &
vb n. {Irrigating}.] [L. irrigatus p. p. of irrigare to
irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain.
See {Rain}.]
1. To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping
water; to bedew.
2. (Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow
upon over or through it as in artificial channels.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
irrigate
v : pour water on "Water the lawn" [syn: {water}]
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