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# grafting

verb form of graft (graft, grafts, grafted, grafting); noun (grafting, uncountable)

«grafting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Grafting is joining a piece cut from one plant onto another plant so that they grow together, as gardeners do with apple trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#m1)
2. (medicine) Grafting is moving healthy skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another to repair it, for example after a bad burn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#m2)
3. (UK, informal) Grafting means working very hard, especially at tiring work: «He's been grafting all day». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#m3)
4. (US) Graft is also using power dishonestly to get money, a kind of corruption. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science and gardening lessons it explains how fruit trees are grown; in health lessons it explains skin grafts. In British everyday talk a «grafter» is a hard worker. Phrases: «skin grafting», «grafting a tree», «hard graft».

### Examples

- The gardener is grafting a branch onto the apple tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x1)
- Grafting lets one tree grow two kinds of apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x2)
- After the fire she needed skin grafting on her arm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x3)
- (UK) Dad's been grafting on the building site all week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x4)
- (UK) Our team won because everyone was grafting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x5)
- (UK) Learning to play the piano takes hard graft. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x6)
- (US) The mayor was accused of graft. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x7)
- We tried grafting cactus plants in science club. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/#x8)

### Note

Graft is regular: grafted, grafting. In the UK, «graft» as hard work is informal and a compliment; in the US, «graft» as corruption is very negative. A «grafter» (UK) is a hard worker.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grafting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grafting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grafting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grafting.html) on Mova free.