irrigate
verb (used with object)
to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
have irrigated
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present perfectof irrigate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Any place in the world where you have irrigated agriculture, that will be the dominant water user, just because of the nature of growing foods with irrigation,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Over the past 40 years there has been a series of plans to build a Red Sea-Dead Sea canal that would have irrigated the Jordan Valley and generated power, none of which have been built.
From Economist ● Jan. 14, 2016
In South Korea/Japan you could have irrigated the Gobi desert just by wringing out one of José Camacho's shirts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2010
At some of the large ejidos on the dry, rocky central plateaus, resettled peasants now have irrigated fields, modern machinery, new roads to market, radios and refrigerators, and tuition-free trade schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
I expect I hadn't ought to have irrigated the don so thorough, but it's real good of him to overlook it and write me a friendly note.
From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine
