Engraft

Definition: Engraft

Engraft

Verb

1. Cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree".

2. To fix or set securely or deeply: "Kneeling, Cobb planted a sturdy knee in the small of his back,".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "engraft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Engraft

Their dream was to engraft upon an absolute and excessive principle a limited power

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "engraft": engraft in. Additional references.

Albanian

shartoj (graft, in-arch, ingraft), rrënjos (enroot, establish, implant, inculcate, instil, instill, plant, root, root in, strike). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طعم (diet, feed, fill, implant, inlay, inoculate, keep, nourish, relish, savor, savour, taste, transplant, troll). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трансплантирам, включвам (add in, comprise, cover, engage in, gear, include, incorporate, insert, involve, latch, make, number, occlude, plug in, subsume, take in, throw in), насаждам (fix, imbue, implant, inculcate, inform, instill, plant, set, set out), присаждам (bud, graft, implant). (various references)

French

greffer. (various references)

Greek 

εμβολιάζω δέντρο, εμβολιάζω (graft, have an inoculation, ingrain, inoculate, vaccinate). (various references)

Hungarian

beolt (implant, ingraft, inject, inoculate, to inoculate, vaccinate). (various references)

Indonesian

mencangkok. (various references)

Italian

innestare (be inserted, engage, graft, implant, insert, join). (various references)

Pig Latin

engraftay.(various references)

Portuguese

enxertar (bud, graft, implant, ingraft, inoculate, transplant), imprimir (impress, imprint, ingraft, print, print out, stamp, strike off), implantar (enplane, implant, instal, install, lodge). (various references)

Romanian

sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, hollow, inscribe, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, trench, undermine), grefa, altoi (cutting, graft, grafting, ingraft, paddle, scion), înviora (enliven, exhilarate, fire, freshen, illuminate, invigorate, push, refresh, regenerate, smarten up), întipãri (enface, engrain, grave, stamp). (various references)

Russian 

прививать (graft, inoculate, vaccinate, vaccinating), делать прививку (ingraft, vaccinate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nakalemiti (graft, ingraft). (various references)

Spanish

poner en otro sitio. (various references)

Swedish

ympa (graft, inoculate), inympa (inoculate, inseminate), inplanta (inoculate, inseminate). (various references)

Thai

ทาบกิ่ง, ฝังลงไปอย่างถาวร. (various references)

Turkish

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), aşılamak (bud, envenom, fertilize, graft, imbue, impregnate, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inoculate, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, plant, suggest, transfuse, vaccinate). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити щеплення (inoculate), прищеплювати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "engraft": engrafted, engrafting, engraftment, engraftments, engrafts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Engraft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Evgraf. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: argent, garnet.

-2 letters: after, agent, anger, antre, frena, ganef, graft, grant, grate, great, range, regna, retag, targe, terga.

-3 letters: ager, ante, earn, etna, fane, fang, fare, fate, fear, feat, fern, feta, frae, frag, frat, fret, gaen, gane, gate, gear, gent, geta, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, near, neat, raft, rage, rang, rant, rate, reft.

+1 letter: engrafts, fragment, frontage.

+2 letters: engrafted, faltering, fathering, featuring, fragments, frontages, ingrafted, reflating, xenograft.

+3 letters: engrafting, feathering, federating, flattering, foredating, fragmental, fragmented, intergraft, redrafting, refloating, refracting, regrafting, restaffing, ungrateful, xenografts.

+4 letters: afforesting, antiforeign, centrifugal, cofeaturing, engraftment, falteringly, farthingale, featherings, ferrimagnet, ferromagnet, forecasting, foretasting, fragmentary, fragmentate, fragmenting, fragmentize, grandfather, interfacing, intergrafts, perforating, redefeating, refastening, refrigerant, reinflating, transfigure, unfaltering.