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Antonyms for engraft

Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-graft, -grahft
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈgræft, -ˈgrɑft

Definition of engraft

Origin :
  • 1580s, from en- (1) + graft (v.). Related: Engrafted; engrafting.
  • As in instill : verb implant, introduce
Example sentences :
  • And how had such degradations been able to engraft themselves into the blood of his son?
  • Extract from : « Their Son; The Necklace » by Eduardo Zamacois
  • We have to engraft on despotism those blessings which are the natural fruits of liberty.
  • Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • They began now to engraft on the crab-apple tree, which was found indigenous.
  • Extract from : « History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia » by Charles Campbell
  • It would be worse than useless to attempt to engraft our marriage customs upon these naive children of Nature.
  • Extract from : « The North Pole » by Robert E. Peary
  • It has the rugged severity of an old chronicle with all that the imagination of the poet can engraft upon traditional belief.
  • Extract from : « Hazlitt on English Literature » by Jacob Zeitlin
  • Trembley next undertook to engraft one individual upon another!
  • Extract from : « The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. » by E. Rameur
  • We were not sent here to engraft new principles into our foreign policy, and I will not consent to enter upon that business.
  • Extract from : « A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention » by Lucius Eugene Chittenden
  • He detaches himself from a rotten tree which is about to fall, in order to engraft himself on a vigorous wild stock.
  • Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Volume 1) » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
  • We have rather to take our native stock as we find it, and engraft upon it a slip from the German.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science » by Various
  • Ethelred sought to "engraft the branch of Cerdic upon the stem of Rollo," in the hope of increasing the power of England.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 » by Various

Synonyms for engraft

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