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 

• ENGRAFT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they engraft    ... he / she / it engrafts   
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:

engraft; graft; ingraft

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)

bury; sink (embed deeply)

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)