graft

/grɑːft/ noun

Definition

SKIN/BONE [C] › a piece of skin or bone taken from one part of a body and joined to another part: a skin/bone graft

PLANT [C] › a piece cut from one plant and joined onto another plant

WORK [U] UK informal › work: hard graft

(Definition of graft noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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