ingrain

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
2. verb To make (something) deeply part of something else.

   The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.

3. adjective Dyed with grain, or kermes.
4. adjective Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
5. adjective Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
6. noun An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Similar words

grain instill impress etch incarnadine crimson overdye berain impaint ingravidate

Often followed by

carpet the carpets in a carpeting and into it

Word family

engrain engrained engraining engrains ingrained ingraining ingrains