Associations to the word «Irrigate»

Wiktionary

IRRIGATE, verb. To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
IRRIGATE, verb. To clean a wound with a fluid.

Dictionary definition

IRRIGATE, verb. Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields".
IRRIGATE, verb. Supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats