adjective
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(esp of a toenail) growing abnormally into the flesh
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growing within or into
Etymology
Origin of ingrowing
Example Sentences
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Patients are being warned not to clog up A&E with everyday niggles as NHS figures show thousands turned to hospitals for minor ailments such as hiccups and ingrowing toenails last winter.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
“Mrs Rhoades’s ingrowing toenail has turned the corner,” says Gilbert over supper.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019
During his 13 years in Japan he seems to have relaxed only in circles of U.S. business and newspapermen similar to the ingrowing foreign groups of Shanghai's International Settlement.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The regular general, seeing that the battle was lost, excused himself and retired to his tent, owing to an ingrowing nail which had annoyed him all day.
From Comic History of the United States by F. Opper
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