Synonyms for irrigation
ir·ri·ga·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. irrigationnoun

   supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc

2. irrigationnoun

   (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution

Matched Categories

1. • Medical Care
   • Medicine
   • Provision

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.1 / 7 votes

1. irrigationnoun

   Synonyms:
   watering

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 5 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "irrigation":

   irrigated, watering, ri, perfusion, irrigate, sprinkler, lari

How to pronounce irrigation?

How to say irrigation in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use irrigation in a sentence?

1. Dinesh Kumar Sarkar:

   Even the idea of building any small irrigation project or building any project for water harvesting does not arise.

2. Ashok Ghosh:

   The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate, there is no law here to check excessive groundwater withdrawal.

3. Irina Zilberbod:

   It’s difficult to know what the pool was used for – whether for irrigation, washing, landscaping or perhaps as part of baptismal ceremonies at the site.

4. Yuping Guan:

   For monsoon areas, shifting seasons can alter the time of monsoons. This means that patterns of monsoon rains are changed as well. These kind of changes may not sync with crops growth, it could also limit the types of crops grown, encourage invasive species or weed growth, or increase demand for irrigation.

5. Tom Cech:

   If you don't have irrigation in Colorado -- in the West -- all you're going to grow is probably prickly pear cactus and sagebrush, water is key to that economic growth, not only in Colorado or Western Nebraska, but in California and the West in general.