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engraft

/en-graft, -grahft/US // ɛnˈgræft, -ˈgrɑft //UK // (ɪnˈɡrɑːft) //

移植,移植术,移植手术,吞噬

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Horticulture. to insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for propagation: to engraft a peach on a plum.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Surgery. to become grafted.

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Examples

  • We have rather to take our native stock as we find it, and engraft upon it a slip from the German.

  • Both Tintoretto and Paul Veronese engraft into their paintings the architecture and other accessories of their own day.

  • On this basis, now and then more marked, definite psychotic manifestations engraft themselves.

  • They cannot put the "new wine into old bottles;" they can never engraft Truth into error.

  • Our earlier term inoculate originally meant to graft, and, in fact, engraft was also used in this sense.