ingrain
verb
[ ɪnˈɡreɪn ]
• firmly fix or establish (a habit, belief, or attitude) in a person.
• "they trivialize the struggle and further ingrain the long-standing attitudes"
Similar:
entrench,
establish,
fix,
inculcate,
instil,
implant,
root,
drive home,
hammer home,
drill into,
drive into,
din into,
ingrain
adjective
• (of a textile) composed of fibres which have been dyed different colours before being woven.
Origin:
late Middle English (originally as engrain in the sense ‘dye with cochineal or in fast colours’): from en-1, in-2 (as an intensifier) + the verb grain. The adjective is from in grain ‘fast-dyed’, from the old use of grain meaning ‘kermes, cochineal’.
