Engrained Definition

Engrained Sentence Examples

• I couldn't stop a habit so long engrained.

• The new power which now rose, to the first rank, created by Philip of Macedon, bad no engrained tendency inimical to the Persian.

• But the practice had been engrained in Hindu opinion by the authority of centuries, and had acquired the sanctity of a religious rite.

• From the further use of "grain" for the texture of substances, such as wood, meat, &c., "engrained" or "ingrained" means ineradicable, impregnated, dyed through and through.

• These are attitudes engrained in many sections of Indian society.