ingrain

Meaning

Verb

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

Adj

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

Noun

An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Synonyms

instill

impress

grain

engrave

graft

imbue

immerse

impregnate

indoctrinate

ineradicable

ingrained

innate

inoculate

inscribe

rooted

soak

vaccinate

embed

deeply infused

engraft

engrain

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.