Graft is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRAFT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to unite with a growing plant by insertion, also GRAFF
• insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft
• insert a graft on (a trunk or stem).
• transplant (living tissue) as a graft
• combine or integrate (an idea, system, etc.) with another, typically in a way considered inappropriate
• make money by shady or dishonest means.
• work hard
• To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
• cause to grow together parts from different plants
• place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
• transplant (living tissue) surgically
NOUN:
• a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap.
• an instance of grafting a shoot or twig on to a living plant.
• a piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically.
• a surgical operation in which tissue is transplanted.
• bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business
• advantages or gains secured as a result of corrupt practices.
• hard work
• surgical transplant of skin or tissue
• A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
• A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
• A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
• To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
• To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
• To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
• To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
• (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
• the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
• the act of grafting something onto something else

Words related to GRAFT

graff12 grafted12 grafter11 grafters12 grafting13 graftings14 grafts10

Words that contain GRAFT

grafts10 engraft11 grafted12 grafter11 ingraft11 regraft11 engrafts12 graftage13 grafters12 grafting13 ingrafts12 isograft12 misgraft14 regrafts12 zoograft21 allograft13 antigraft13 autograft13 engrafted14 graftages14 graftings14 homograft18 ingrafted14 isografts13 misgrafts15 regrafted14 xenograft20 zoografts22 allografts14 autografts14 engrafting15 homografts19 ingrafting15 intergraft14 isografted15 misgrafted17 regrafting15 xenografts21 allografted16 autografted16 engraftment17 heterograft18 ingraftment17 intergrafts15 isografting16 misgrafting18 zoografting25 allografting17 autografting17 engraftation16 engraftments18 heterografts19 ingraftation16 ingraftments18 intergrafted17 zoograftings26 engraftations17 ingraftations17 intergrafting18

How to use GRAFT in a sentence

• The town had suffered from graft, and the mayor, thinking a woman might scare the thieves as well as the bacteria, appointed the chemist who believed in herself.
• If we see the branch growing out of the tree, we need not inquire what trunk it sprang from, unless we have strong evidence that it is only a graft.
• It was this latter reputation that had brought Simon Graft to him.
• All the things which were done by our Lord Jesus Christ, in time, graft faith in us.
• Graft and bad management, as well as treachery, were all through the nation.
• For shallow soils it is better to graft on to the Paradise stock, as its roots do not run down so low as the Crab.
• But, if in his skirmishes with graft and corruption he had failed to correct the evils he attacked, from the contests he himself had always emerged with credit.
• And private capital already has secured control of that political organization, and graft and robbery are running riot.
• Virginia must have a very different kind of life from hers! Parentlike she yearned to graft upon the young tree the heavy branch of her own worldly experience.
• One feels instinctively that there is no graft bound up with the digging of the Martian canals.
• All of these trees except one, were killed back of the graft the first winter.
• A straight split is made in the bark of the end of the stock, and the graft crowded down into this split so that it remains between bark and wood finally.
• Another important point in hickory propagation work consists in the employment of the Spanish windlass for fastening graft and stock together.
• But as a rule we assume that the stock has no influence upon the graft in regard to the validity of character.
• I have even had a little short side graft grow using this paraffin method, a graft two or three inches long.
• His young wife had been, after all, but a sweet and pleasant graft upon a sturdy tree.
• The crooked chief of police had turned me over to the crooked coal company to do crooked work, and I was to be held up for a graft on my salary.
• And this fact must work to the undoing of the government that must soon fall into their hands, for no government can well exist founded upon graft, greed, and dishonesty.
• His application to be raised is consequently rejected, and he remains a Fellow Graft.
• Although menaced by the bloody sword of Imperialism in Europe, it perhaps stands in no less danger from the secret poison of graft and greed and treachery here at home.
• Then came the sinister triumph of Ruef and the days of graft, cut short by the amazing exposure, detection, and overthrow of entrenched wickedness, and the administration of Dr.
• And now the Graft Prosecution was to learn by public vote how many of the people stood behind it.
• The larger the need represented, the larger the sum that might, with propriety, be demanded and the larger the opportunity for graft.
• He learned to graft trees, and thus rendered great assistance to William Wright in his necessary business.
• The most dogged industry would fail to graft a book on his prose.

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