Entry Word: ingrain

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle <the journalism professor ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession> — see infuse
2 to produce a vivid impression of <the third-world privation he witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctorʼs memory> — see engrave 2
3 to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter <tried to ingrain traditional values in their children> — see entrench