graft

(noun, verb)

noun

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

Similar word(s): transplant

Definition categories: body

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

Similar word(s): bribery

Definition categories: act, felony

3. the act of grafting something onto something else

Similar word(s): grafting

Definition categories: act, affixation, attachment

verb

1. cause to grow together parts from different plants

- graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree

Similar word(s): engraft, ingraft

Definition categories: contact, conjoin, join

2. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Similar word(s): transplant

Definition categories: contact, enter, infix, insert, introduce

Sentences with graft as a verb:

- 1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! — Alexander Pope