to engraft
- verb
- /ɪnˈɡræft/
:
injertar
- His attempt to engraft these new pillars seemed to shake the edifice itself.
Examples
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Developments such as airbags were engrafted upon the existing restraint systems, seat belts.
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Then when we we did, we proved that those cells when injected in a mice, they can engraft they couldn't colonize the blast stream of the mice.
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The Fourteenth Amendment engrafted this new perspective onto the Constitution.
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It is clear that the court engrafted these ideas onto a statute that did not expressly include them.
Academic text (2001) -
According to Niles, the Italian diplomat had expressed "great admiration for the government of the United States, whose example had done so much to enlighten mankind as to the extent to which the people could be safely entrusted with the exercise of political rights," and further told him that "they were now endeavoring to engraft our principles of government upon their own constitutional system."
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The gardener decided to engraft a new variety of apple onto the existing tree to improve its yield.
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The organization aims to engraft innovative practices into its current operational framework.
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To make the policy more effective, the committee will engraft the recent research findings into their guidelines.
Synonyms
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1.0
To attach something firmly so it does not move
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4.8
Fix firmly inside another material so it becomes part of it
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1.6
Hold something in place so it cannot move
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5.2
Put something firmly into a body or surface
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1.8
To make someone stay in one place or keep their attention on something
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3.4
To put or set something firmly in a place so it does not move
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6.8
To fasten something so it does not move
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9.1
To put something firmly in a chosen place, often for machines or heavy equipment
To put something firmly into a material so it stays there
Antonyms
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Engraft comes from the parts en- meaning 'in' and graft meaning 'to join' or 'to fasten'. So, to engraft something is to put it 'in' so it becomes firmly fixed or becomes part of something else, which is why we speak of ideas or habits being engrafted into a culture.