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INGRATIATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they ingratiate ... he / she / it ingratiates
Past simple: ingratiated
Past participle: ingratiated
-ing form: ingratiating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "ingratiate" is one way to...):
control; keep in line; manipulate (maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ingratiate"):
cotton up; cozy up; play up; shine up; sidle up; suck up (ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
ingratiatory (calculated to please or gain favor)
