Synonyms of ingraining

ingraining

verb

variants also engraining

present participle of ingrain

1

as in inculcating

to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle

the journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inculcating
• infusing
• inoculating
• imbuing
• suffusing
• investing
• charging
• filling
• steeping
• instilling
• induing
• planting
• enduing
• animating
• enlivening
• saturating
• implanting
• invigorating
• permeating
• pervading
• leavening
• flooding
• impregnating
• inundating
• submerging
• drowning
• overwhelming
• deluging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• depriving
• stripping
• emptying
• removing
• eliminating
• taking (away)
• clearing
• divesting

2

as in etching

to produce a vivid impression of

the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory

Synonyms & Similar Words

• etching
• engraving
• branding
• imprinting
• impressing
• instilling
• inculcating
• fixing
• implanting
• infusing
• infixing
• stamping
• imbuing
• setting
• enrooting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• erasing
• obliterating
• expunging
• blotting out

3

as in entrenching

to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter

tried to ingrain traditional values in their children

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entrenching
• rooting
• imbedding
• embedding
• establishing
• implanting
• impacting
• intrenching
• putting
• placing
• instilling
• bedding
• lodging
• fixing
• infusing
• imbuing
• enrooting
• driving (into)
• sticking
• beating (into)
• settling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eliminating
• eradicating
• rooting (out)
• uprooting
• dislodging
• removing
• expelling
• ejecting
• detaching
• disconnecting
• disengaging