Ingrain

Quick meaning: Ingrain is a verb meaning (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour.

Meaning

(transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figuratively) To make (something) deeply part of something else.
2. Dyed with grain, or kermes.
3. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
4. (figurative, by extension) Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
5. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Example Sentences

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!

Word Forms

• ingrains
• ingraining
• ingrained

Synonyms for ingrain

Depending on context, synonyms include embed, infix, instill, radicate, impress, grain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grain, instill, impress, etch, incarnadine, crimson.

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