engraft

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From earlier ingraft, equivalent to en- (“in”) + graft.

Not a single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
[846] “By these two marriages, Alexander thus engrafted himself upon the two lines of antecedent Persian kings. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian
And the white man's careless and immoral conduct is the chief obstacle which those who would engraft upon the Indian the moral consciousness must contend against. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck

graft, ingraft

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