Dictionary Entry
ingrain
ingrain is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dyed with grain, or kermes. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
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- 1adjective
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
- 2adjective
Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
- 3noun
An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
- 4transitive verb
To dye with or in grain or kermes.
- 5transitive verb
To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
- 6transitive verb
To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.
- 7verb
produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
"Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
- 8verb
thoroughly work in
"His hands were grained with dirt"
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