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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
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to produce a vivid impression of
- the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory
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to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
- tried to ingrain traditional values in their children
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infuse, suffuse, imbue, ingrain, inoculate, leaven mean to introduce one thing into another so as to affect it throughout. infuse implies a pouring in of something that gives new life or significance.
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- new members infused enthusiasm into the club
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- a room suffused with light
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- imbue students with intellectual curiosity
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- clung to ingrained habits
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- an electorate inoculated with dangerous ideas
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- a serious play leavened with comic moments
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being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
- an ingrain skepticism that saves him from falling for every hoax that comes along
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