to ingrain
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6.1
- verb
- /ɪnˈɡreɪn/
:
inculcar
- The values of honesty and integrity were ingrained in him from a young age.
- deeply ingrained
- ingrained habit
- ingrained culture
And we're still seeing this type of behaviour ingrained into the medical profession.
- And we're still seeing this type of behaviour ingrained into the medical profession.
- These three phases are ingrained into every single one of us subconsciously.
- Can you talk a little bit about what was this enormous push that ingrained in a generation of women that we are not supposed to take hormones?
- Are you excited to be a Father, to ingrain faith in him so that way you don't have to watch your son go through those nights that you didn't have faith?
- Well, what I intuit from that is it's, it's a looser, it's, it's a cultural thing where it's just ingrained into the way people are living on a day-to-day basis.
- And that mission statement, so to speak, really is ingrained in us for those four years.
- But that process is now ingrained in our scientists, which is like delightful for me to see.
- And if there's one thing that's ingrained in you and that, that background is that when you're sent in to do a job, by God, you do it.
- And then you're going to, it's going to start becoming more ingrained in you, like brain muscle memory as you start doing these things more purposefully.
- If I could tell my kids one thing that they just ingrained in themselves.
- This is how I've been, you know, ingrained to be.
Examples
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Science educators acknowledge that there are a number of naive beliefs about science ingrained in public understanding.
Academic text (1994) -
Still, it is beyond question that baseball had become a deeply ingrained part of Passamaquoddy culture.
Academic text (2000) -
It's just, after you give birth, it becomes ingrained in you.
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In colonial America, the idea became ingrained in the American legal system.
Academic text (1993) -
Good education, good training, and lifelong training are ingrained in their culture.
Academic text (1996) -
These are symptoms of a deeply ingrained paranoid fear.
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In addition to outside interference, there are many old, ingrained habits that make the transition very difficult.
Academic text (1991) -
How is a president, even one backed by foreign powers, to change these deeply ingrained habits and culture?
Academic text (2011) -
The tradition of woodworking is deeply ingrained in their culture and local folklore.
Academic text (2008) -
I was raised in journalism by old-fashioned editors who ingrained in me a fundamental belief in objectivity.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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6.4
To put an idea or feeling into someone's mind so it stays there
80
3.9
To make an idea or habit become fixed in someone's mind
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4.8
To gradually make someone feel, believe, or value something
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6.7
To make an idea or belief so strong that it is hard to change
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4.6
Fill someone or something with a feeling like confidence
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5.7
Put a strong idea or belief into someone's mind
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4.8
To fix an idea firmly in someone's mind so they remember it
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8.1
Teach someone a belief or habit by repeating it often
To make an idea or habit stay in a person's mind
Antonyms
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ingrain comes from the parts in- 'in' and grain 'seed' or 'small particle', imagining a colour or habit worked right into the 'grain' of a cloth or person. So to ingrain a habit is to make it go deep into someone until it is hard to change.