irrigate
(verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; “irrigate the wound”
water, irrigate
(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; “Water the fields”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
irrigate (third-person singular simple present irrigates, present participle irrigating, simple past and past participle irrigated)
(transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
(transitive) To clean (a wound) with a fluid.
Source: Wiktionary
Ir"ri*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Irrigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Irrigating.] Etym: [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.)
Definition: To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
