Synonyms of irrigates

irrigates

verb

present tense third-person singular of irrigate

as in rinses

to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse

if you get the chemical in your eye, irrigate the eye thoroughly with water

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rinses
• washes
• flushes
• floods
• sluices
• inundates
• flows
• washes out
• engulfs
• streams
• gushes
• saturates
• swamps
• soaks
• rushes
• drenches
• hoses
• deluges
• sloshes
• splashes
• douses
• douches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of irrigates

Fisher said he flood irrigates about 60 acres of his property to grow hay and pasture for cattle. — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026

The river irrigates more than 5 million acres of farmland and supplies water to 40 million people across the West. — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026

Today, water from the massive lake, fed by the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, irrigates farms across the Central Valley and provides drinking water for Silicon Valley, including San Jose. — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026

If there’s a long delay before the next rain, run your irrigation once every two weeks or once a month, depending on the types of plants each zone irrigates. — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025

Water from the Central Valley Project irrigates roughly one-third of California agriculture, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. — CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025

The river also irrigates more than 850,000 acres of farmland — the highest concentration of irrigated acres of any river basin in Colorado. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025

The canal irrigates more than 108 square miles, the district said. — Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025

Whatever irrigates the imagination and allows the soul to exhale. — James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025