ingrain

Meanings

Plural: ingrains

Verb

• thoroughly work in
• produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
  • "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
• To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
• To make (something) deeply part of something else.

Adj

• Dyed with grain, or kermes.
• Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
• Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

Noun

• An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Synonyms

breed in the bone, embed, grain, impress, infix, instill, radicate

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