1(of dirt or a stain) deeply embedded and difficult to remove.
uniforms covered with ground-in dirt
Example sentencesExamples
Mounting wood cabinets on legs is especially important since they can sustain heavy damage from moisture, chemicals, and ground-in dirt.
Sandrine's gaze kept wandering back to his hands - wide, capable hands with long slender fingers, still elegant somehow under a ground-in patina of oil and dirt.
Ground-in dirt and stains only get worse with time.
You might want to power wash it to remove the ground-in dirt.
Use a power washer to remove the concrete dust and years of ground-in grime.
Synonyms
fixed, infixed, planted, implanted, embedded
1.1(of a habit or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change.
a ground-in routine, repeated grimly over and over
Example sentencesExamples
He shows his own ground-in racism by being afraid to discuss historical racist attitudes rationally.
This idea will challenge Christians to "re-read" their own traditions, their rigid linguistic codes, their ground-in prejudices and practices.
It sounds like you live in a very depressing area where no amount of trying from yourself is going to overturn the ground-in negative attitudes of the people.
It will take more than one snowfall to cleanse the ground-in corruption that's revealed when this simpatico police detective investigates the local connections to the murder of a man who owned a trucking company in Lombardy.
As with other ground-in habits, I need to identify a way of fixing this flaw, as it is expensive.
Definition of ground-in in US English:
ground-in
adjective
1(of dirt or a stain) deeply embedded and thus difficult to remove.
uniforms covered with ground-in dirt
Example sentencesExamples
Sandrine's gaze kept wandering back to his hands - wide, capable hands with long slender fingers, still elegant somehow under a ground-in patina of oil and dirt.
Mounting wood cabinets on legs is especially important since they can sustain heavy damage from moisture, chemicals, and ground-in dirt.
You might want to power wash it to remove the ground-in dirt.
Ground-in dirt and stains only get worse with time.
Use a power washer to remove the concrete dust and years of ground-in grime.
Synonyms
fixed, infixed, planted, implanted, embedded
1.1(of a habit or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change.
a ground-in routine, repeated grimly over and over
Example sentencesExamples
He shows his own ground-in racism by being afraid to discuss historical racist attitudes rationally.
As with other ground-in habits, I need to identify a way of fixing this flaw, as it is expensive.
It sounds like you live in a very depressing area where no amount of trying from yourself is going to overturn the ground-in negative attitudes of the people.
This idea will challenge Christians to "re-read" their own traditions, their rigid linguistic codes, their ground-in prejudices and practices.
It will take more than one snowfall to cleanse the ground-in corruption that's revealed when this simpatico police detective investigates the local connections to the murder of a man who owned a trucking company in Lombardy.