Irrigating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irrigate \Ir"ri*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Irrigated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Irrigating}.] [L. irrigatus, p. p. of irrigare to
     irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain.
     See {Rain}.]
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     1. To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping


        water; to bedew.
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     2. (Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow
        upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
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     3. (Med.) To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow
        or spray of a liquid.
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