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. graft.

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

When applied to the skin of mice -the only animal model able to test engineered bacteria to date- they engraft, live and produce the protein.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

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

The ultimate aim is to create the so-called universal T cell—a cell that has the capacity to engraft in any person’s body.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

Above all he occupied himself with the investigation and delineation of the various anomalous individualities, the degenerative constitutions upon which these psychotic manifestations engraft themselves.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

Related Words

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