Definitions for engrafts

engrafts en·graft

Spelling: [en-graft, -grahft]
IPA: /ɛnˈgræft, -ˈgrɑft/

Engrafts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in engrafts (aefgnrst).

Definitions for engrafts

verb (used with object)

  1. Horticulture. to insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for propagation:

verb (used without object)

  1. Surgery. (of living tissue) to become grafted.

Origin of engrafts

First recorded in 1575-85; en-1 + graft1

Examples for engrafts

And how had such degradations been able to engraft themselves into the blood of his son?

We have to engraft on despotism those blessings which are the natural fruits of liberty.

It would be worse than useless to attempt to engraft our marriage customs upon these naive children of Nature.

Trembley next undertook to engraft one individual upon another!

It has the rugged severity of an old chronicle with all that the imagination of the poet can engraft upon traditional belief.

He detaches himself from a rotten tree which is about to fall, in order to engraft himself on a vigorous wild stock.

We were not sent here to engraft new principles into our foreign policy, and I will not consent to enter upon that business.

Ethelred sought to "engraft the branch of Cerdic upon the stem of Rollo," in the hope of increasing the power of England.

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

They began now to engraft on the crab-apple tree, which was found indigenous.

Word Value for engrafts
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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