verb (used with object)
- Horticulture. to insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for propagation: to engraft a peach on a plum.
verb (used without object)
- Surgery. (of living tissue) to become grafted.
verb (tr)
- to graft (a shoot, bud, etc) onto a stock
- to incorporate in a firm or permanent way; implantthey engrafted their principles into the document
1580s, from en- (1) + graft (v.). Related: Engrafted; engrafting.