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graft

noun

1 graft

surgery Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient.

synonym: transplant.

Roget 784: giving etc. v.; bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, ... show more

Dutch: ent, transplantaat
Polish: przeszczep, transplantat

2 graft

The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.

synonym: bribery.

Roget 940: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace etc. (disrepute) 874; fraud etc. (deception) 545; lying etc. ... show more

Dutch: omkoping, corruptie, omkoperij
Polish: łapownictwo, łapówkarstwo, korupcja, przekupstwo

3 graft

The act of grafting something onto something else.

synonym: grafting.

Dutch: enting
Polish: zaszczepianie, szczepienie

verb

1 graft

Cause to grow together parts from different plants:
— Graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree.

synonyms: engraft, ingraft.

Roget 537: teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten etc. (inform) 527.    inculcate, ... show more

Roget 300: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject etc. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, ... show more

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; ... show more

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, ... show more

Dutch: enten

2 graft

Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient.

synonym: transplant.


Moby thesaurus: abstraction, affix, anchor, annex, annexation, appropriation, attach, ballot-box stuffing, belay, blackmail, boodle, boodling, boosting, booty, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing, bud, bunco, campaign contribution ... show more.

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