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irrigates

verb , present tense third-person singular of irrigate

Synonyms and Antonyms of irrigates

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 of irrigates

flushes, rinses, sluices, washes, washes out

Words Related to irrigates

deluges, engulfs, floods, inundates, swamps

flows, gushes, rushes, streams

drenches, saturates, soaks

douses (also dowses), sloshes, splashes

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