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Webster 1913 Edition
Ingrain
1.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
[Obs.]
2.
Dyed before manufacture, – said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
Ingrain carpet
, a double or two-ply carpet.
– Triple ingrain carpet
, a three-ply carpet.
In′grainˊ
,Noun.
An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
In′grainˊ
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ingrained
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ingraining
.] [Written also
engrain
.] 1.
To dye with or in grain or kermes.
2.
To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
3.
To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.
Our fields
ingrained
with blood. Daniel.
Cruelty and jealousy seem to be
ingrained
in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ingrain
IN'GRAIN
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
ingrain
ingrain
English
Verb
ingrain (third-person singular simple present ingrains, present participle ingraining, simple past and past participle ingrained)
- To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
Synonyms
Adjective
ingrain (not comparable)
- Dyed with grain, or kermes.
- 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!
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Noun
ingrain (plural ingrains)
- An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.