irrigates

Channels water deliberately

Irrigates means to supply water to land or crops through artificial channels, pipes, or sprinklers: The farm irrigates three hundred acres of cotton.

In medicine, to irrigate is to wash out a wound or body cavity with a stream of liquid.

Figuratively, anything that flows through and nourishes can irrigate: Coffee irrigates my morning brain.

agriculture

crops

Cultivated plants for harvest

ditches · furrows · flooding · sprinklers · drip · pivots · channels · aqueducts · sluices · terraces

metaphorical

nourishes

Provides sustenance to

revitalizes · infuses · replenishes · stimulates · fertilizes · cultivates · nurtures · vitalizes · energizes · supplies

gardening

lawn

Tended yard grass

  • bedsFurniture for sleeping
  • plantsPhotosynthesizing rooted organisms
  • hosesFlexible tubes for water

soaker · timers · mulch · zones · emitters · tubing · landscape · flowerbeds · vegetables · borders

medical

wound

Coiled, or an injury

syringe · sterile · debridement · catheter · lavage · antiseptic · solution · rinse · abscess · healing

Opposites
water supply action

irrigatesdrains

Pipes removing wastewater

pumps out · desiccates · parches · dries · dries out

moisture state change

irrigatesdries out

Loses liquid content

desertifies · drains · dehydrates · desiccates · parches

Phrases
Family

irrigate, irrigation, irrigated, irrigating, irrigator, irrigators, irrigations

Familiarity
Top 20,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G