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graft as in:  skin graft

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    The skin graft was successful and the patient’s wound healed quickly.
    graft = transplant (movement from one part of the body and joined to another part of the body)
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    "One graft should do it, but we can't operate until the tissue heals," he said to the intern, then spoke to the patient.  (source)
    graft = medical transplant of living tissue
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    Your shoulder will feel a bit sore until the graft is completely healed.  (source)
    graft = artificial join
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    I wished I could perform a skin graft on Tinkerbell, but that would have meant cutting her into pieces.  (source)
    graft = artificially joining two things
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    I looked as if I had been grafted with a pair of elephant legs.†  (source)
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    He explained that on Monday I would have another surgery that would take a flap of skin from under my armpit and swing it over, grafting it across the open wound.†  (source)
    grafting = artificially joining
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    Still, I wondered whether skin grafts could have achieved what Mother had with her comfrey and lobelia salve.†  (source)
    grafts = joins two things; or items joined; or locations of the joining
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    He was a farmer, a cattle man, a grafter of fruit-trees, a breeder of horses, a herder of sheep, a preacher, a physician.†  (source)
    grafter = someone or something that joins two things -- especially fruit trees
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    Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild.†  (source)
    ungrafted = not artificially joined
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungrafted means not and reverses the meaning of grafted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He'll also serve notice that you're prepared to back up your orders against graft—by enforcement from the smugglers' end as well.  (source)
    graft = dishonest conduct (such as bribery) for personal gain
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    On each there is one scion grafted onto a rough lemon rootstock.†  (source)
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    Alternatively, you might try grafting their story onto some older story of rivalry and violence, a story where even the victor is ultimately doomed, a story where, despite occasional personal shortcomings, the characters have an unmistakable nobility.†  (source)
    grafting = artificially joining
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    She spent weeks in a hospital enduring painful skin grafts that left her terribly scarred.†  (source)
    grafts = joins two things; or items joined; or locations of the joining
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graft as in:  graft and corruption

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The government of that country is known for graft at all levels.
graft = political corruption such as bribery
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    The investigation revealed evidence of graft and bribery among high-ranking officials.
    graft = corruption
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    Hawat here estimates that graft and extra fighting men heretofore required in their operations have been costing them four times that amount.  (source)
    graft = dishonest conduct (such as bribery) for personal gain
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    He was an enormously rich man—he had a hand in all the big graft in the neighborhood.  (source)
    graft = corruption in which one uses their position to get money or other personal advantage
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No more graft!  (source)
graft = dishonest conduct (such as bribery) for personal gain
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