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ENGRAFT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does engraft mean?
• ENGRAFT (verb)
The verb ENGRAFT has 2 senses:
1. cause to grow together parts from different plants
2. fix or set securely or deeply
Familiarity information: ENGRAFT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: engrafted
Past participle: engrafted
-ing form: engrafting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to grow together parts from different plants
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
Hypernyms (to "engraft" is one way to...):
conjoin; join (make contact or come together)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fix or set securely or deeply
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
embed; engraft; imbed; implant; plant
Context example:
The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum
Hypernyms (to "engraft" is one way to...):
enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "engraft"):
pot (plant in a pot)
nest (fit together or fit inside)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples
Lymphocytes from the original stem cell donor are given to the HSCT recipient, after the transplant, to augment an antitumor immune response (graft-versus-tumor), or ensure that the donor stem cells remain engrafted.
(Donor Cellular Infusion, NCI Thesaurus)
The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
By birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at three years old, on losing her mother, she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the foundling of her grandmother and aunt, there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there; of her being taught only what very limited means could command, and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement, to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person, good understanding, and warm-hearted, well-meaning relations.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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