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ingrain

verb as in imbue

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Whereupon Mufty, finding himself dropped upon the coldly unsympathetic ingrain carpet, desisted from further encouraging remarks.

But I never can—I'm like him, every one says so, and he says the heedlessness is ingrain, and can't be got rid of.

Between the pews, in the aisle, the violent vermilion of a strip of ingrain carpet assaulted the eye.

On the floor was a much used and faded ingrain carpet, in one place worn through by the edge of a loose board.

She felt her feet sink luxuriously into the rugs, oh, so different from the threadbare ingrain carpet at home!

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ingrain, such as: instill, fix, implant, and teach.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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