ingraff
ingraff is the obsolete form of engraft.
Meaning of engraft
Verb
engraft (third-person singular simple present engrafts, present participle engrafting, simple past and past participle engrafted)
- To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
- To fix firmly into place
- Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 15”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Forms of ingraff
| third-person singular present | ingraffs |
|---|---|
| present participle | ingraffing |
| past participle | ingraffed |
| past | ingraffed |
Questions about ingraff
- What is ingraff the obsolete form of?
- Ingraff is the obsolete form of engraft.
Words near ingraff in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingraff (page history and authors); engraft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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