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to regraft

to regraft

1 7.9
To attach a part of a plant or skin to another part again after the first attempt fails
  • verb
  • /riˈɡræft/
  • Specialized
: reinjertar
  • He had to restore skin, using prostheses, inch by inch, regrafting a foot as if traversing a desert.

Examples

  • After the first graft failed, the surgeon decided to regraft the tissue using a new technique.

  • The gardener had to regraft the plant branch when the first attempt did not take.

  • Literary criticism thus becomes regrafted on the branch of what was once called moral philosophy.

    Academic text (1990)

  • This transformation, rather than clipping the "wings of bourgeois culture," has regrafted them more firmly still.

    Academic text (1991)

  • When the original tissue transplant failed, the doctor recommended that they regraft it.

How Often

to regraft
  • Specialized
1 7.9
graft
  • Specialized
1 5.5

Surface Forms

regraft infinitive
regrafted past
regrafted past participle
regrafting present participle
regrafts third person singular

Morphology

regraft = graft (transparent) = re + graft

The meaning is the regular iterative sense 'graft again', which is directly predictable from the base verb and prefix.

Etymology

Regraft starts with re- meaning 'again' and the word graft, which means 'to join a piece of plant or tissue onto another'. So regraft simply means to 'graft again', for example when a graft did not take and must be tried once more.