ingratiate
verb [no passive] (disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ingratiate | |
| he / she / it ingratiates | |
| past simple ingratiated | |
| past participle ingratiated | |
| -ing form ingratiating |
- ingratiate yourself (with somebody)
to do things in order to make somebody like you, especially somebody who will be useful to you 讨好；巴结；迎合 The first part of his plan was to ingratiate himself with the members of the committee. 他的计划的第一步是拉拢委员会的成员。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin in gratiam ‘into favour’, on the pattern of obsolete Italian ingratiare, earlier form of ingraziare.