1.  irrigate(v = verb.change) water - supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields"
is one way to wet
Derived form noun irrigation₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  irrigate(v = verb.body) - supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound"
is one way to care for, treat
Derived form noun irrigation₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew. [1913 Webster]

2.  To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels. [1913 Webster]

3.  To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow or spray of a liquid. [PJC]

irrigate, v.tr.
1 a water (land) by means of channels. b (of a stream etc.) supply (land) with water.
2 Med. supply (a wound etc.) with a constant flow of liquid.
3 refresh as with moisture.

Derivative:
irrigable adj. irrigation n. irrigative adj. irrigator n.

Etymology:
L irrigare (as IN-(2), rigare moisten)

VB  be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle.

VB  flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.