irrigate
verb (used with object)
to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
will irrigate
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future tenseof irrigate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Lower water availability forced a revision in the area that GAP will irrigate, down to 1.05 million hectares, from an original 1.8 million.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
When all of that is finished — if all of that is ever finished — an expected 13 billion gallons of water will irrigate more than 300 square miles of newly created farmland.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2012
It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting 1,500,000 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Upper Chenáb Canal will irrigate 648,000 acres mostly in Gujránwála, and will be carried across the Ráví by an aqueduct at Balloke in the south of Lahore.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie
