irrigation

noun irrigation

• inundation — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
• flooding — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
• sprinkling — the act or an instance of sprinkling.
• soaking — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
• watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.