Collocations for "graft"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "graft" in context.
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graft
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- needs a [skin, bone] graft
- underwent a [skin] graft
- the graft is healing nicely
- the [branch, shoot] should form a [good, healthy, strong] graft
- graft and [corruption, bribery]
- graft in [politics, the Senate]
- measures to curb [political] graft
- UK: need to put more graft into the [work, cleaning, project]
- UK: [achieved, accomplished, done] through hard graft
- UK: succeeded after [months, years] of graft
- grafted [skin, tissue, bone]
- grafted [skin] from her [arm, thigh, back]
- skin was grafted onto her [arm]
- graft a [cutting, tomato plant, tree branch]
- UK: spent his whole life grafting
- UK: sweated and grafted
'graft' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):