engraft

American  

[en-graft, -grahft] / ɛnˈgræft, -ˈgrɑft /

verb (used with object)

1. Horticulture. to insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for propagation.

   to engraft a peach on a plum.

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verb (used without object)

1. Surgery. (of living tissue) to become grafted.

engraft British  

/ ɪnˈɡrɑːft /

verb

1. to graft (a shoot, bud, etc) onto a stock

2. to incorporate in a firm or permanent way; implant

   they engrafted their principles into the document

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Other Word Forms

• engraftation
  noun
• engraftment
  noun

Etymology

Origin of engraft

First recorded in 1575–85; en- ¹ + graft ¹

Example Sentences

However, after tens of thousands transplants, little was known about which donor strains provide long-term engraftment, and which engraft early after the transplant.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

Jimi also needed chemotherapy to kill off existing cells in his bone marrow so that his edited stem cells would have room to engraft and grow.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

But it can take about six weeks for cord blood cells to engraft, so she was also given partially matched blood stem cells from a first-degree relative.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

There were now tests to help predict compatibility and to improve the chances that allogeneic marrow cells would engraft.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

Suppose, as we suggested in the preceding chapter, that at the root of life there is an effort to engraft on to the necessity of physical forces the largest possible amount of indetermination.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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