" ingrain "

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

  * e.g., " ... the journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession "

•  Synonyms : 

•  endue,

•  imbue,

•  inculcate,

•  infuse,

•  inoculate,

•  invest,

•  steep,

•  suffuse

•  Antonyms : 

•  dislodge,

•  root (out),

•  uproot

2: to produce a vivid impression of;

  * e.g., " ... the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory "

•  Synonyms : 

•  brand,

•  engrave,

•  etch,

•  impress,

•  imprint,

•  infix

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

3: to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter;

  * e.g., " ... tried to ingrain traditional values in their children "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bed,

•  embed,

•  enroot,

•  entrench,

•  fix,

•  impact,

•  implant,

•  lodge,

•  root

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing;

  * e.g., " ... an ingrain skepticism that saves him from falling for every hoax that comes along "

•  Synonyms : 

•  built-in,

•  constitutional,

•  constitutive,

•  essential,

•  hardwired,

•  immanent,

•  inborn,

•  inbred,

•  indigenous,

•  ingrained,

•  inherent,

•  innate,

•  integral,

•  intrinsic,

•  native,

•  natural

•  Antonyms : 

•  adventitious,

•  extraneous,

•  extrinsic