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Ingrain

verb
(past & past part. ingrained; pres. part. ingraining)
1.
Thoroughly work in.  Synonym: grain.
2.
Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of.  Synonyms: impress, instill.






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"Ingrain" Quotes from Famous Books



... hate, my kith and kin, Furious that I should keep Their forfeit power to weep, And mock, with living fear, their mournful malice thin. But ever, at the last, my way I win To where, with perfectly sad patience, nurst By sorry comfort of assured worst, Ingrain'd in fretted cheek and lips that pine, On pallet poor Thou lyest, stricken sick, Beyond love's cure, By all the world's neglect, but chiefly mine. Then sweetness, sweeter than my tongue can tell, Does in my bosom well, And tears come free ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore

... minister came and spoke to them, and welcomed them to the church, although Allison told him quite curtly that they were only passing through the town; but Julia Cloud trod the neat brown ingrain carpet of the aisle as if it ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill

... English and American aestheticism in the decoration of their apartments, but the greater part accepted the Florentine drawing-room as their landlord had imagined it for them, with furniture and curtains in yellow satin, a cheap ingrain carpet thinly covering the stone floor, and a fire of little logs ineffectually blazing on the hearth, and flickering on the carved frames of the pictures on the wall and the nakedness of the frescoed allegories in the ceiling. Whether of longer or shorter stay, the ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells

... very nice to drive four-in-hand with somebody, and dance the German with him; and have good times at pic-nics and such things; but when it came to settling down in a little bit of a house, without a room in it big enough for a German; and ingrain carpets on the floorsI couldn't, Hazel!' said the girl with a shudder. 'And there ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner



Words linked to "Ingrain" :   penetrate, move, affect, perforate, strike



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