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Grain (Verb)

Thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Her fingers were grained with mud from gardening all morning.
His hands were grained with dirt from fixing the car engine.
The mechanic's skin was grained with grease after years of working with engines.
The woodworker's fingers were grained with sawdust after a long day.
Her boots were grained with sand from walking on the beach all day.

Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood.

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The painter was tasked with graining the columns to give them a marble appearance.
The carpenter used a graining technique to make the fake wood paneling blend in seamlessly with the rest of the wall.
The interior designer chose to grain the doors to make them look like solid oak.
It took the artist hours to carefully grain each section of the vaulted ceiling to achieve the desired look.
The homeowner decided to grain the old cabinets to save money instead of replacing them with wooden ones.

Form into grains.

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Become granular.

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Photography experts advise that images generally begin to grain when the ISO exceeds 6400.
High-quality cameras are designed to minimize and suppress noise that causes the image to grain.
The low light in the room caused the video to grain, making it difficult to make out any details.
If you zoom too far into the footage it tends to grain and lose a lot of clarity.
The camera sensor began to grain and struggle with the low-light winter conditions.