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- verb Present participle of
irrigate .
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Examples
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Some of the rivers are literally exhausted in irrigating the soil.
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They made the barren land fertile by spreading water from the little streams over it, -- what we call "irrigating"; and they planted enough corn and grain and vegetables for all the people.
Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling Sara Cone Bryant
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They made the barren land good by spreading water from the little streams over it, -- what we call "irrigating;" and they planted enough corn and grain and vegetables for all the people.
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant
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Roofs include solar panels for power generation, as well as a cistern for collecting rainwater for uses such as irrigating the yard and washing the car.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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Roofs include solar panels for power generation, as well as a cistern for collecting rainwater for uses such as irrigating the yard and washing the car.
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010
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A team of hydrologists led by Matt Rodell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., found that northern India's underground water supply is being pumped and consumed by human activities, such as irrigating cropland, and is draining aquifers faster than natural processes can replenish them.
innovations-report 2009
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"If you are irrigating, flushing, or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution," Louisiana State Epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard said in a statement.
'Brain-Eating Amoeba' Deaths May Be Linked To Tap Water Use In Neti Pots, Louisiana Officials Warn 2011
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He spent $28,000 in one month pumping water onto about 500 acres in West Texas before he decided to give up irrigating 75 acres of corn and focus on other crops that stood a better chance in the drought.
Farmers face losses during record-breaking drought season 2011
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Jack posing for the camera on the water wagon used for irrigating the euclyptus trees he planted on the ranch.
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A cliche landscape painting of a rural idyll showing a pretty little rivulet irrigating a cottage garden is pierced through with the visual shock of a real stream of running water.
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