graft

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstransplant

   Broaderanimal tissue

   Narrowerautografthomograftheterograft

   surgery

2. 2.

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

   Synonymsbribery

   Broaderfelony

   Narrowerbarratrycommercial bribery
3. 3.

   the act of grafting something onto something else

   Synonymsgrafting

   Broaderattachment

1. 1.

   cause to grow together parts from different plants

   “graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree”

   Synonymsengraftingraft

   Broaderjoin
2. 2.

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

   Synonymstransplant

   Broaderinsert

Other forms of graft

plural

grafts·

past tense

grafted·

present participle

grafting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about graft

What does graft mean?

graft means "(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in graft?

graft has 1 syllable: graft. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹæft/.

What is another word for graft?

Close synonyms include transplant, bribery, grafting, engraft, ingraft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is graft a common word?

graft is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with graft?

1 word rhymes with graft. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.