English language

How to pronounce ingrain in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms grain
Type of penetrate, perforate
Type Words
Synonyms impress, instill
Type of affect, impress, move, strike


Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us.

Examples of ingrain

ingrain
Nutrition is another value that teachers intend to ingrain through the garden.
From the heraldtribune.com
It helps me learn because it helps ingrain it in my memory a little bit more.
From the delawareonline.com
How did State Farm so deeply ingrain itself into the dialect of the sporting world?
From the businessweek.com
He wants to ingrain himself with the Blue and Gold, not just be a guest in someone's home.
From the buffalonews.com
Freud, and then Dr. Spock, helped ingrain this idea so that we now take it for granted.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It's something that people have to ingrain into their everyday lives.
From the businessweek.com
Women in Recovery is an attempt to break a pattern of addiction before prison helps ingrain it.
From the time.com
Yet TV and radio hosts ingrain those associations in viewers for the sake of some ideological purity.
From the sacbee.com
Asking others for help all the time can ingrain helplessness in your image of yourself, making you even more helpless.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • Thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt"
  • Impress: produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
  • (ingrained) deep-rooted: (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"
  • (ingraining) inculcation: teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition
  • Ingrain (or wood-chip) wallpaper is a decorating material. It consists of two layers of paper with wood fibre in between; different kinds of ingrain wallpaper are distinguished by the size and form of the fibre pieces.
  • To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively
  • (ingrained) Being an element; present in the essence of a thing; Fixed, established