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
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
A forward step is the Euphrates dam, being built with West German Marks, which will irrigate 2,200,000 acres of land and produce enough power to meet all industrial needs.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is possible to compute the cost of any one of the systems of irrigation, to determine whether it will pay by calculating the amount of land it will irrigate.
From Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner
