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  • English Word Irrigate Definition To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
  • English Word Irrigate Definition To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
  • English Word Irrigated Definition of Irrigate
  • English Word Irrigating Definition of Irrigate
  • English Word Irrigation Definition The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
  • English Word Irriguous Definition Watered; watery; moist; dewy.
  • English Word Irriguous Definition Gently penetrating or pervading.
  • English Word Irrisible Definition Not risible.
  • English Word Irrision Definition The act of laughing at another; derision.
  • English Word Irritability Definition The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
  • English Word Irritability Definition A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.
  • English Word Irritability Definition A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
  • English Word Irritable Definition Capable of being irriated.
  • English Word Irritable Definition Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
  • English Word Irritable Definition Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
  • English Word Irritable Definition Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
  • English Word Irritableness Definition Irritability.
  • English Word Irritably Definition In an irritable manner.
  • English Word Irritancy Definition The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.
  • English Word Irritancy Definition The state o quality of being irritant or irritating.
  • English Word Irritant Definition Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
  • English Word Irritant Definition Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation.
  • English Word Irritant Definition That which irritates or excites.
  • English Word Irritant Definition Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant.
  • English Word Irritant Definition A poison that produces inflammation.
  • English Word Irritate Definition To render null and void.
  • English Word Irritate Definition To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
  • English Word Irritate Definition To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.
  • English Word Irritate Definition To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
  • English Word Irritate Definition To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.