to ingratiate
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8.2
- verb
- /ɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪt/
:
ganarse el favor de
- Swisher has long gone out of his way to ingratiate himself with the fans at Yankee Stadium
- seeking to ingratiate
- attempt to ingratiate
How did he manage to ingratiate himself with all these individuals?
- How did he manage to ingratiate himself with all these individuals?
- I'm here that person who's very like overt and charming and and trying to very much ingratiate themselves with you.
- And to try and ingratiate themselves with Elon, they phoned Elon or sent a message to Elon saying that we are going to try and escape today.
Examples
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She tried to ingratiate herself with her new coworkers by bringing in homemade cookies.
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Gogy's attempt to ingratiate himself had mixed success.
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How did he manage to ingratiate himself with all these individuals?
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You go back and ingratiate yourself with this young woman.
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There are, however, a few things you can do to ingratiate yourself with a potential client:
Academic text (2009) -
Or do you try to ingratiate yourself with him by your silence?
Fiction book (1998) -
Instead, seek out a mentor and do everything possible to ingratiate yourself into their circle.
Blog text (25) -
I see you've managed to ingratiate yourself with the hired help.
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He tried to ingratiate himself with the nurses by doing their laundry chores.
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By late 1791, Gunn seemed eager to ingratiate himself with Hamilton.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
100
3.6
Praise someone with words you do not mean to get their help
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7.9
Say nice things to someone to get their help or a reward
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7.4
To try to get someone to like you by praising them or being too helpful
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9.5
To try to please someone in power to get an advantage
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9.1
Flatter and obey someone in power to get their favor
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6.8
To try to get someone's approval by praising them a lot
To please someone with too many compliments to get a favor
To act friendly to someone to get what you want
Antonyms
How Eager
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ingratiate comes from the Latin parts in- ('in') and gratia ('favor' or 'thanks'), the same root as grace and grateful. So to ingratiate is to try to get into someone's favor by being pleasant or flattering.