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
Why perform operations if the patient is suffering less from a stomach ulcer than from an ingrowing mother-in-law?
From Time Magazine Archive
We had a man in No.— Stationary who got through the famous charge of the 9th Lancers unhurt, but came into hospital for an ingrowing toe nail!
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
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