noun

1. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

verb

1. To dye with a fast or lasting colour.

2. To make (something) deeply part of something else.

   “The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.”

Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate

adjective

1. Dyed with grain, or kermes.

2. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.