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Answer for the clue "Fix in the mind ", 7 letters:
ingrain
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Word definitions for ingrain in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ingrain \In"grain`\, n. An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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. n. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet. v To make something deeply part ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" [syn: grain ] produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn: impress , instill ]
Usage examples of ingrain.
And young Hakat is of the Cherkess, a people renowned for their ingrained honesty.
Ashe and Grunthor, determining that to be too long, forwent any troop accompaniment, preferring to rely on their natural or ingrained abilities to go without sleep for extended periods and the well-supplied mail route along the trans-Orlandan thoroughfare, where fresh horses could be had every eighty leagues.
Social Democrats, who were mostly well-meaning trade-unionists with the same habit of bowing to old, established authority which was ingrained in Germans of other classes, could not bring themselves to do.
American life, and one of the most deeply ingrained instincts in the Jacksonian world.
Fifteen years in the Chinese army, most of those as part of a tank crew, had ingrained in him an instinctive longing for maneuverability that was the key to survival in land warfare.
Had the scandals and investigations so defined and crippled the president, ingrained a sense of desperate struggle and blind determination, that he had lost his way?
Volkov was surprised at the reaction until he remembered that the saur method of hunting, megayears established and ingrained, was to stampede herds of herbivorous dinosaurs off cliffs.
He was going to save the country, save the world, in spite of its slavish ingrained genuflection to oversweetened dreck.
Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitzilopochtli was.
Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitz ilopochtii was.
Michel Duval felt that this was a mistake, as it tended to ingrain reticence and distrust in the colonists, preventing the very compatability that the selection committee was supposedly seeking.
Michel Duval felt that this was a mistake, as it tended to ingrain reticence and distrust in the colonists, preventing the very compatability that the selection committee was supposedly seeking.
Pandering to a spoiled citizenry had become so ingrained, it remained in place even as buildings and complacencies crumbled.
It's observed that self-pity and depression are dependencies that (probably) become ingrained early in life - and they are serious dependencies.
It is these durational expectancies, different in each society but learned early and deeply ingrained, that are shaken up when the pace of life is altered.