ingrain

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Verb

ingrain (ingrains, present participle ingraining; past and past participle ingrained)

1. (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To make (something) deeply part of something else.

   Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate

   The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.

   The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.

Translations

• Russian: укореня́ть

Adjective

ingrain (not comparable)

1. Dyed with grain, or kermes.
2. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
   • , Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!

Noun

ingrain (plural ingrains)

1. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

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