Synonyms of irrigating

irrigating

verb

present participle of irrigate

as in rinsing

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

• rinsing
• flushing
• washing
• flooding
• sluicing
• flowing
• washing out
• inundating
• swamping
• engulfing
• gushing
• saturating
• soaking
• drenching
• streaming
• rushing
• deluging
• hosing
• splashing
• douching
• sloshing
• dousing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of irrigating

Rather than giving it the whole inch during one watering session, water twice weekly, irrigating for 30 minutes in each session. — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 26 June 2026

Water plants well in the months leading up to winter, and check soil moisture regularly over winter, irrigating as needed to maintain moisture. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026

Kunyu City, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwest China, hosts huge sprinklers that are irrigating over 1,317 acres (533 hectares) of winter wheat fields on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. — Leonard David, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026

This new statute requires various property owners, including HOAs, to either remove nonfunctional turf or begin irrigating it with reclaimed water. — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026

The dam was built to control floods from the Colorado River while also irrigating the Southwest. — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026

Under the agreement, Riverview will stop irrigating 2,000 acres of crops in phases within 12 years. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026

As images reach us in fragments, sound weaves a continuity from off-screen to on-screen, carrying the emotion through the film and irrigating the streams of images, like water flowing. — Cátia Rodrigues, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025

Thirsty data That Lake Mead’s worth of water that has disappeared from beneath the lower Colorado basin has gone largely to irrigating alfalfa and other food for cows, much of which is exported. — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025