ingrain

UK
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
US
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
ingrainverb
ingrained
Past Simple
ingrained
Past Participle
ingraining
Gerund
UK
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
US
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
Translations
The teacher aims to ingrain good study habits in her students.
Учитель стремится внедрять хорошие учебные привычки в своих учеников.
It is important to ingrain a sense of responsibility in children from a young age.
Важно укоренять чувство ответственности у детей с раннего возраста.
Additional translations
Definitions
To firmly fix or establish (a habit, belief, or attitude) in a person.
The teacher worked hard to ingrain a love of reading in her students.
(Archaic) To dye (yarn or fabric) before weaving so that the colour is fixed in the fibre.
The weavers ingrained the wool in vibrant reds before beginning their work.
ingrainnoun
ingrains
pl
UK
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
US
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
Refers chiefly to a type of reversible carpet or fabric woven with yarns dyed in the grain.
Definitions
A reversible woollen carpet or fabric woven with yarns that have been dyed before weaving.
The staircase was still covered with the original ingrain the house had when it was built.
ingrainadjective
more ingrain
Comp.
most ingrain
Super.
UK
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
US
/ɪnˈɡreɪn/
Translations
The ingrain habit of checking his phone every few minutes was hard to break.
Укоренившаяся привычка проверять телефон каждые несколько минут была трудно искоренима.
Her ingrain distrust of strangers made it difficult for her to make new friends.
Ее вкоренившееся недоверие к незнакомцам затрудняло заведение новых друзей.
Definitions
Dyed before being woven; coloured throughout the fibre so that the colour is fast and enduring.
The curtains were made of an ingrain fabric that never faded.
Deeply rooted; firmly established; inherent (now rare and largely replaced by "ingrained").
He felt an ingrain skepticism toward authority.