bewässern — meaning in English

English meaning

• flush verb To clean by flooding with water, especially a toilet.
• irrigate verb To supply land with water using channels, pipes, or sprinklers so crops can grow.
• Water noun The clear liquid (H2O) that falls as rain and fills rivers, lakes, and seas, essential to all known life.

Senses

bewässern is used for these senses in English:

• flush To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• irrigate (transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
• water (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

flush — full definition

1. verb To clean by flooding with water, especially a toilet.
2. verb To turn red in the face from embarrassment, heat, or emotion.
3. noun A reddening of the face caused by embarrassment, heat, or excitement.
4. adj Level or even with a surrounding surface.
5. noun In card games, a hand made up entirely of cards from the same suit.

irrigate — full definition

1. verb To supply land with water using channels, pipes, or sprinklers so crops can grow.
2. verb (medicine) To rinse a wound or body cavity with a flow of liquid to clean it.

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