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/trænsplˈæntɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Transplant v. t. (past & past part. transplanted; pres. part. transplanting)

To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. "Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate."

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Etymology of 'Transplanting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transplanting" Quotes from Famous Books

... mortifying defeat, life in Arcis will not be endurable. Beauvisage (forgive the name, it is that of my adopted family)—Beauvisage is like Coriolanus, ready if he can to bring fire and slaughter on his ungrateful birthplace. Besides, in transplanting themselves hither, these unfortunate exiles know where to lay their heads, being the owners ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... fastidious than it looks, is outraged by this forceful perambulation and, in an access of premature senility, or suicidal mania, or sheer despair, gives birth to its only flower—herald of death. The fatal climax could be delayed if gardeners, in transplanting, would at least take the trouble to set them in their old accustomed exposure so far as the cardinal points are concerned. But your professional gardener knows everything; it is useless for an amateur to offer him advice; worse than ...

— Alone • Norman Douglas

... frighted him to silence. Pope countenanced Agamemnon by coming to it, the first night, and was welcomed to the theatre by a general clap; he had much regard for Thomson, and once expressed it in a poetical epistle sent to Italy, of which, however, he abated the value by transplanting some of the lines into his Epistle ...

— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson

... a grand oratorical manner, gave the boys the benefit of his search for knowledge. "A dibber is a pointed tool, usually a stick, used to make holes for planting seeds, bulbs, setting out plants and transplanting ...

— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw