I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
skin graft
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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Horses are not stupid and will soon grasp how to avoid hard graft !
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A mere £8,000, plus two months of hard graft .
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You're standing hunched up with the dull awareness of the hard graft .
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It's hard graft getting it out of her.
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The bomb and the bullet of course provide more dramatic reportage than hard graft , the golf club and fishing rod.
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All you need is £8,000 and about two months hard graft , as one Clwyd farmer found out.
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The hard graft may be persuading him or her to do the job.
■ NOUN
skin
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Pauline Leyshon has been told her latest skin graft operation is imminent.
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After a skin graft on his leg, the patient is now fully recovered, he said.
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I've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft .
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Jay Burns has undergone 18 skin grafts since the horrible accident three years ago, an accident that nearly destroyed his life.
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She's also had a major skin graft .
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The other chap had a skin graft .
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Could mule pregnancies be interfered with by giving the mare a skin graft from her prospective donkey consort?
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Schellenberg could see where the skin graft stretched tightly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A major investigation is underway to root out graft there, he said.
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Stevens was in court yesterday facing charges of graft and tax evasion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A major investigation is under way to root out graft there, they said.
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About 30 % of such grafts fail in two to five years and 50 % within 10 years.
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About 40 percent of her diseased liver was removed and replaced with a graft from a healthy liver.
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I've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft .
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In Springfield you could tell real fast which men were there for girls, games, and graft .
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Murders, theft, rape, calumnies, graft - our daily bread.
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People once accepted government greed and graft with a shrug of resignation.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The political parade was grafted onto the Frontier Days celebration.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After being grafted, the joints are dipped into paraffin wax for protection.
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By grafting in another eyecup another lens can be induced to form from the overlying layer.
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Husbands and wives were bound by deep ties-like two branches grafted together.
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I made a note to myself to come back in early spring to get scions for grafting.
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If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos on to one another, the roof would really lift off!
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If they are grafted on to existing vocational education-representing a change in name only-we will be worse off than when we started.
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Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34, while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end.
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They grafted themselves, in fact, on to a much older, more primitive and powerful religious life.