1. Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
   "They grafted skin from her thigh onto the burn site";
   - transplant
    
2. Cause to grow together parts from different plants
   "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree";
   - engraft, ingraft [archaic]
    
3. [Brit, informal] Work hard and steadily
   "He grafted away at his studies"

1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
   "The skin graft was successful in treating the burn victim";
   - transplant
    
2. The act of grafting something onto something else
   "The graft of apple branches onto the rootstock produced a hybrid tree";
   - grafting
    
3. The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
   "The official was caught accepting graft from contractors";
   - bribery, palm-greasing [informal]
    
4. [Brit] Hard work
   "It took a lot of graft to finish the project on time"

Sounds like: grade, grayed, greraft, gra

Derived forms: grafts, grafting, grafted

Type of: affixation, animal tissue, attachment, conjoin [formal], enter, felony, infix, insert, introduce, join

Encyclopedia: Graft, Netherlands