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ingrained

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in·grained  (n-grnd)
adj.
1. Firmly established; deep-seated: ingrained prejudice; the ingrained habits of a lifetime.
2. Worked deeply into the texture or fiber: a carpet disfigured by ingrained dirt.

ingrained or engrained
Adjective
1. (of a habit, feeling, or belief) deeply impressed or instilled
2. (of dirt) worked into or through the fibre or pores [dyed in grain dyed with kermes through the fibre]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ingrained - (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"
constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

ingrained or engrained
Translations
ingrained [ɪnˈgreɪnd] adjarraigado
ingrained [ɪnˈgreɪnd] adjenraciné(e)
ingrained [ɪnˈgreɪnd] adj (habit) → fest;
(belief) → unerschütterlich
ingrained [ɪnˈgreɪnd] adjradicato/a


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The idea of absolute financial probity as the first law of a gentleman's code was too deeply ingrained in him for sentimental considerations to weaken it.
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.
 
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