Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of irrigating Change your watering practices if needed, and never mow right after a rain or irrigating the lawn. —

Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 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 This new statute requires various property owners, including HOAs, to either remove nonfunctional turf or begin irrigating it with reclaimed water. —

Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 17 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

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Vulcano About an hour ferry ride from Milazzo, Vulcano lures visitors with its active volcano, Gran Cratere, and open-air mud baths just steps from the port, where bathers slather on the mineral-rich goodness before rinsing in the sea.

— Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
Not to mention that, in the cabin, the only person doing the dishes and rinsing out everyone’s beer cans for the recycling was the ostensibly famous lead singer—the only woman, natch.

— Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026