ingraft

[ in-graft, -grahft ]

/ ɪnˈgræft, -ˈgrɑft /

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verb (used with object)

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OTHER WORDS FROM ingraft

in·graft·ment, in·graf·ta·tion, nounun·in·graft·ed, adjective

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How to use ingraft in a sentence

But the idea of a progressive tax was ingrafted into the law.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, August 1899|Various
Elias Hicks ingrafted some reform ideas into the Quaker faith, and instituted a new society of that order.
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors|Kersey Graves
Perhaps the cough might have been originally an imitation also, ingrafted on the system by habit.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction,|Various
Their original history was foreign, and ingrafted upon the history of the country where they settled.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.|Jacob Bryant

The people of the Bay Islands can be ingrafted on your Republic only by wise concessions properly made.
By-Ways of War|James Jeffrey Roche

British Dictionary definitions for ingraft

ingraft

/ (ɪnˈɡrɑːft) /

verb

a variant spelling of engraft

Derived forms of ingraft

ingraftment or ingraftation, noun

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