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ingrainverbalso engrain to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principlethe journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession endue(or indue), imbue, inculcate, infuse, inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse animate, charge, enliven, invigorate, leavenimplant, instill, plantimpregnate, permeate, pervade, saturatedeluge, drown, fill, flood, inundate, overwhelm, submerge deprive, divest, stripclear, emptyeliminate, remove, take (away) to produce a vivid impression ofthe third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory brand, engrave, etch, impress, imprint, infix enroot, imbue, implant, inculcate, infuse, instillfix, set, stamp blot out, erase, expunge, obliterate to set solidly in or as if in surrounding mattertried to ingrain traditional values in their children bed, embed(also imbed), enroot, entrench(also intrench), fix, impact, implant, lodge, root imbue, infuse, instillbeat (into), drive (into)establish, place, put, settle, stick dislodge, root (out), uproot eliminate, eradicateeject, expeldetach, disconnect, disengage, remove ingrainadjectivebeing a part of the innermost nature of a person or thingan ingrain skepticism that saves him from falling for every hoax that comes along built-in, constitutional, constitutive, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained(also engrained), inherent, innate, integral, intrinsic, native, natural basic, deep-rooted, elemental, fundamentalcongenital, hereditary, inherited, inmost, inner, interiorinternalcharacteristic, distinctive, peculiarhabitual, inveteratenormal, regular, typical in one's blood adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic alien, foreignaccidental, coincidental, incidentalacquired, adscititioussuperficial, surfaceexterior, external v.infuse, suffuse, imbue, ingrain, inoculate, leaven mean to introduce one thing into another so as to affect it throughout.infuse implies a pouring in of something that gives new life or significance.new members infused enthusiasm into the club suffuse implies a spreading through of something that gives an unusual color or quality.a room suffused with light imbue implies the introduction of a quality that fills and permeates the whole being.imbue students with intellectual curiosity ingrain, used only in the passive or past participle, suggests the deep implanting of a quality or trait.clung to ingrained habits inoculate implies an imbuing or implanting with a germinal idea and often suggests stealth or subtlety.an electorate inoculated with dangerous ideas leaven implies introducing something that enlivens, tempers, or markedly alters the total quality.a serious play leavened with comic moments ca. 1641 |