Usually means: Firmly fix beliefs or ideas.
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  1. ingrain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ingrain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ingrain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ingrain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ingrain: Vocabulary.com
  6. ingrain: Wordnik
  7. ingrain: Wiktionary
  8. ingrain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ingrain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ingrain: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ingrain, ingrain: Dictionary.com
  12. ingrain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Ingrain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ingrain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ingrain: Rhymezone
  16. Ingrain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ingrain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ingrain: Free Dictionary
  19. ingrain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ingrain: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingrain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingrain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ingrain)

verb:  (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To make (something) deeply part of something else.
adjective:  Dyed with grain, or kermes.
adjective:  Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
adjective:  (figurative, by extension) Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
noun:  An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

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