What does ingrain mean?
Ingrain means (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour..
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/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪn/ · verb
(transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour..
The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!
Use ingrain when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ingrain means (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour..
Common synonyms include breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
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