Engrain

Word ENGRAIN
Character 7
Hyphenation en grain
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Definitions and meanings of "Engrain"

What do we mean by engrain?

To ingrain. transitive verb

See ingrain, ingrainer. noun

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See ingrain. transitive verb

To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. transitive verb

To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1. transitive verb

Alternative spelling of ingrain. verb

To dye with a fast or lasting colour.

To make (something) deeply part of something else.

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The word "engrain" in example sentences

A national campaign to engrain the three Cs -- cyberethics, cybersafety and cybersecurity -- into the subconscious of K-12 students is being readied by the National Cyber Security Alliance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The dem solution is to put stronghanded regulations on the financial community and engrain the government in the minutia of the system so that in times of potential trouble, they can swoop in like faux-superman and 'save the world '– or when they need political points. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Society needs to do absolutely EVERYTHING it can to discourage any image of “acceptance” with such things that may engrain themselves in the younger minds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Writers took all year to fully engrain those characters into the show and develop the way the dynamic has changed, but now the show is really able to dig into the good stuff. ❋ Hulu.com (2011)

But slowly building the Peace Corps to the peak it reached when I served in the slums of Bombay in the late 60's does not answer the world's pressing needs, show the world an American response which matches their needs, or engrain a character of service that produces healthy domestic and international public policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Neither talk offered a strategy that would engrain into our character a better public policy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(A further demonstration of the larger, obsequious mechanisms at work to engrain the official version.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

We need a new 21st century army to address needs, stem climate change, spread appropriate technology -- and to engrain service and community building into America's character -- so that tomorrow we'll be too smart to follow simplistic and costly public policies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a divorced dad raising two kids the last thing I want to do is engrain in them the notion of an evil stepmother. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the same time that civic educators seek to impart skills, knowledge, and participatory virtues, they also seek to engrain in society's youth a felt connection to, if not an identity with, that country or society. ❋ Crittenden, Jack (2007)

They are IMO deliberately taking advantage of the MSM propensity for alarmism and sensationalism to get their propaganda into the media and so engrain their opinions into the minds of the general public. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Another is you've got to keep the trial short and going forward, and the third is you've got to keep control of the courtroom and on all three of those, when we were trying to train the judges for the Saddam Hussein trial, we tried to engrain these lessons and yet in practice, they're having a lot of difficulties. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Whatever this adventure might be — even insanity — Gary did not want to lose these incredible images, wanted to engrain them indelibly on his mind and carry them with him for all of his life. ❋ Salvatore, R. A., 1959- (1993)

In studying the behaviour of animals, which is the only way of getting at their mind, for it is only of our own mind that we have direct knowledge, it is essential to give prominence to the fact that there has been throughout the evolution of living creatures a strong tendency to enregister or engrain capacities of doing things effectively. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

Under this steady pressure, it's not uncommon to internalize thin ideology, engrain it in our thought processes and behaviors around food and body image and even impress these same ideals on our loved ones. ❋ Kenneth L. Weiner (2011)

Only this is the ugly, grisly, bloody business of war for profit at a staggeringly immoral, obscene, and ever purposely escalating cost; not to mention a yearly military budget of over 650 billion dollars a year; conveniently facilitated by multiple disappearing 757's and physics-defying steel-framed buildings magically falling at the rate of gravity to permanently engrain the illusionary need for these ever expanding, outrageously out-of-control, military eco-complex of corporate death dealers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meeting these standards 'requirements has allowed HEIT to engrain strong policies and controls throughout its organization, thereby improving efficiency and keeping HEIT a 100% U. S.-based operation while competitors have sent their work to India and the Philippines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only this is the ugly, grisly, bloody business of war for profit at a staggeringly immoral, obscene, and ever purposely escalating cost; not to mention a yearly military budget of over 650 billion dollars a year, conveniently facilitated by multiple disappearing 757's and physics-defying steel-framed buildings magically, impossibly, falling at the rate of gravity to permanently engrain the illusionary need for these ever expanding, outrageously out-of-control, military eco-complex of corporate death dealers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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