Ingrain

Definition: Ingrain

Ingrain

Verb

1. Thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt".

2. Make a deep and indelible impression on someone.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ingrain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Industry

Synonyms: Ingrain

Interposition

Put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate, sandwich in, fit in, squeeze in; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.

Crosswords: Ingrain

Expressions using "ingrain": Ingrain carpet ♦ Triple ingrain carpet. Additional references.

Albanian

i ngjyer (dyed, floury, ingrained), prej filli të ngjyer. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرس (implant, instill, plant, planting), ‏أصل (ancestry, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, source, stock, strain, taproot), ‏شرب (bib, drain, drink, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вродена черта на характера, вкоренен (chronic, ingrained, inveterate, rooted, settled), вбит в самата тъкан (ingrained), вбит в самата нишка, закоравял (callous, case-hardened, chronic, confirmed, crusted, double-dyed, habitual, hard boiled, indurate, ingrained, inveterate, irreclaimable, obdurate, tough), боядисан на прежда, пропит с (ingrained). (various references)

Czech

zakořenit. (various references)

Danish

ingrain effekt, ingrain, gennemfarvet uld. (various references)

Dutch

ingrain, wol van gekleurde vezels. (various references)

French

invétérer, ingrain, teint sur filés, planter (get in, put in), laine teinte, boire. (various references)

German

Ingrain, in der Wolle gefärbt, in der Faser/Wolle gefärbtes Garn, in der Faser gefärbt, eingießen (infuse, mould, pour, pour in, to infuse, to ingrain, to mould, to pour in). (various references)

Greek 

βαφείς με στερεό χρώμα, ινγκρέιν, μουλτικολόρ νήμα συνεχών ινών, μουλτικολόρ νήμα, εμβάπτω (immerse), εμβολιάζω (inoculate, vaccinate), εμποτίζω (soak). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחקוק בנפש, להשריש (root), להטביע ב-. (various references)

Hungarian

megrögzõdik, bevés (to engrain, to engrave, to grave, to ingrain), beleivódik. (various references)

Italian

ingrain, tinto in filo, tinto in filato, radicato (deep rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, inveteracy, rooted, settled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

物にする (to ingrain into oneself, to take possession of, to win a girl's heart). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ものにする (to ingrain into oneself, to take possession of, to win a girl's heart). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingrainay.(various references)

Portuguese

inveterado (confirmed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, double-dyed, engrained, entrenched, incarnate, ingrained, inveterate), inerente (inherent), tingido (stained), lã tinta, lã tingida em rama, lã tingida, hist�ria inveross�mil, fio multicolor de filamentos tintos na massa, fio multicolor de fibras tintas em rama, fio de carretel, fio (thread, string, wire, yarn), arraigado (deep-rooted, double-dyed, entrenched, ingrained, rooted). (various references)

Romanian

imprima (imprint, print), vopsit cu culori diferite pe cele douã feţe, vopsit în fir, vopsit în culoare închisã, fixa (affix, attach, determine, fasten, fit, fix, make fast, mount), fire vopsitã, covor vopsit în fibrã, caracter înnãscut. (various references)

Russian 

укоренять (enroot, radicalize), укоренившийся (entrenched, ingrained), врожденный (connate, inborn, innate), окрашенный в пряже, проникающий (penetrative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

okoreo (addicted, arrant, chronic, confirmed, double-dyed, dyed in the wool, impenitent, ingrained, inveterate, obdurate, out and out, thorough), bojen pre prerade. (various references)

Spanish

ingrain, infundir (infuse), inculcar (inculcate), tela tejida con hilos teñidos, teñir en rama, teñido en rama (ingrained), te ido en rama, preparar (prepare), arraigar (grow up, strike, take), arraigante, arraigado (ingrained, rooted, taken). (various references)

Thai

ฝังแน่น, ซึ่งติดแน่น (sure-footed). (various references)

Turkish

içine işletmek (engrain), kökleştirmek (root), ham iken boyamak (engrain). (various references)

Ukrainian

виріб із пофарбованої пряжі, природжений (born, congenial, congenital, connate, habitual, inborn, inbred, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, innate, native, natural, organic, original, true born, unschooled), пофарбований у пряжі (dyed in the wool). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thâm căn cố đế (confirmed, deep-rooted, double-dyed, engrained, ingrained, inveterate), nhuộm ngay từ sợi ăn sâu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ingrain": ingrained, ingrainedly, ingraining, ingrains. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ingrain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cingria, Igrayne, Indrajit, Ingermann, ingrait, ingria, Inkariy, intrain, negreni, negroni, nigericin, nigrain, nigri, Qinghai. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: raining.

-1 letter: airing.

-2 letters: garni, grain, iring.

-3 letters: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, inia, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.

-4 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, inn, nag, nan, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na.

+1 letter: arginine, braining, draining, graining, inarming, ingrains, ravining, training.

+2 letters: arginines, arointing, inarching, ingrained, inorganic, insnaring, intrigant, margining, nitrating, ordaining, rationing, regaining, remaining, renailing, retaining, ruinating, signorina, spraining, straining, trainings, unhairing, urinating.

+3 letters: arraigning, astringing, bargaining, brigandine, brigantine, carnifying, chagrining, clarioning, curtaining, deraigning, detraining, engrailing, engraining, entraining, fingernail, frangipani, garnishing, graininess, herniating, increasing, indurating, inearthing, infracting, ingrafting, ingraining, instarring, intragenic, intreating, intrigants, intriguant, inwrapping, mainspring, manicuring, marinading, marinating, niggarding, notarizing, organising, organizing, pertaining, poniarding, rainmaking, realigning, refraining, reinvading, repainting, resinating, retraining, romanising, romanizing, ruminating, signorinas, tarnishing, transiting, unbraiding, ungainlier, unoriginal, urbanising, urbanizing, varnishing.