ingrain

Plural: ingrains

Verb

Verb Forms: ingrained, ingraining, ingrains

• To impress deeply or fix firmly in the mind.
• 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.

Examples

• He tried to ingrain the two-letter word list into his memory for Scrabble.
• The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
• The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams of ingrain