Meaning & use
engrafted
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Inserted or incorporated something permanently into an existing structure, system, or character, as if by grafting.
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Years of military discipline had engrafted a rigid routine into his daily life.
The gardener engrafted a new variety of apple onto the old rootstock.
A note on using this word
Engrafted was originally a horticultural term for joining plant tissue, later broadened to describe habits or ideas becoming permanently fixed.
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Words with an opposite meaning
removeduprooted
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