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engraft
/ ɪnˈɡrɑːft /
verb
- to graft (a shoot, bud, etc) onto a stock
- to incorporate in a firm or permanent way; implant
they engrafted their principles into the document
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Derived Forms
- ˌengrafˈtation, noun
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Other Words From
- engraf·tation en·graftment noun
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Example Sentences
We have rather to take our native stock as we find it, and engraft upon it a slip from the German.
Both Tintoretto and Paul Veronese engraft into their paintings the architecture and other accessories of their own day.
On this basis, now and then more marked, definite psychotic manifestations engraft themselves.
They cannot put the "new wine into old bottles;" they can never engraft Truth into error.
Our earlier term inoculate originally meant to graft, and, in fact, engraft was also used in this sense.
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