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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Ingrain

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective
 : 
in=grain

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Ingrain has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ingraina. [Pref. in- in + grain kermes. See Engrain, Grain.].
  •  Dyed with grain, or kermes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.  [1913 Webster]
Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.
Ingrainn. 
     An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.  [1913 Webster]
Ingrainv. t. [Written also engrain.].
  •  To dye with or in grain or kermes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.  [1913 Webster]
    "Our fields ingrained with blood."  [1913 Webster]
    "Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Ingrain, adj.
1 inherent; ingrained.
2 (of textiles) dyed in the fibre, before being woven.

Idiom
ingrain carpet a reversible carpet, with different colours interwoven.

THESAURUS

Ingrain

apply paint, bed, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brush on paint, calcimine, coat, color, complexion, confirm, cover, dab, daub, deep-dye, define, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, embed, emblazon, enamel, engild, engraft, engrave, entrench, establish, etch, face, fast-dye, fix, found, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, grave, ground, hue, illuminate, imbue, impact, implant, impress, imprint, incise, infix, inoculate, inscribe, invest, jam, japan, lacquer, lay on color, leaven, lodge, pack, paint, parget, pigment, plant, prime, print, root, seat, set, set in, settle, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, stamp, steep, stereotype, stipple, suffuse, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, wash, wedge, whitewash

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Ingrain

Interposition

VB lie between, come between, get between, intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate, 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, interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in, intrude, obtrude, have a finger in the pie, introduce the thin end of the wedge, thrust in.

Color

VB color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue, paint.

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