Definitions for grafts

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grafts graft

Spelling: [graft, grahft]

IPA: /græft, grɑft/

Grafts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in grafts (afgrst).

Definitions for grafts

noun

1. Horticulture. a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow. the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion. the place where the scion is inserted.
2. Surgery. a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
3. an act of grafting.
4. the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
5. a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain or advantage.
6. the gain or advantage acquired.
7. British Slang. work; labor.

verb (used with object)

1. to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.
2. to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.
3. Surgery. to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.
4. to attach as if by grafting:
5. Nautical. to cover (a rope) with a weaving of rope yarn.
6. to obtain by graft.

verb (used without object)

1. to insert scions from one plant into another.
2. to become grafted.
3. to practice graft.

Origin of grafts

1350-1400; earlier graff, Middle English graffe, craffe Old French graife, greffe, graffe Late Latin graphium hunting knife (Latin: stylus) Greek grapheion, derivative of gráphein to write; s

Examples for grafts

Merely acquiring a mobile-phone account remains an exercise in red tape and graft.

She supported the creation of watchdogs to look for graft in government, firing those who improperly profited.

If you will haue it to be excellent, graft it afterward vpon an Almond tree.

We've built a nation of high finance—and graft—and a rising angry mob.

Ask Americans just a few decades ago (or, indeed, Indians today) and they might say that graft is just how things get done.

graft from the full of the Moone, vntill the end of the old.

In a cold Countrey graft later, and in a warme Countrey earlier.

The old culture of the Party of Regions—its lack of transparency, the graft and the shady deal making—has returned.

The country was ranked 144 of 177 nations surveyed by Transparency International in its 2013 graft perception index.

But commonly, graft at that time of the Winter, when sap beginneth to arise.