ingrain

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Synonyms for ingrain

to implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible

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Synonyms for ingrain

thoroughly work in

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produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

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"Now let me see--hum, yes, we was discussing ingrains," he continued briskly.
The room had, to begin with, a cheerful red ingrain carpet and a set of maple furniture.
It was from Akut--a sudden, low growl, no louder than those he had been giving vent to the while he pranced about the dead bull, nor half so loud in fact; but of a timbre that bore straight to the perceptive faculties of the jungle beast ingrained in Korak.
She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles.
When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!