ingrown
[in-grohn]
Origin of ingrown
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Contemporary Examples
It took that hideous affliction to remove the even more hideous affliction of destructive and ingrown stories.
But the place itself has become oddly small: ingrown, imprisoned by habit, oblivious to its own growing irrelevance.
Historical Examples
The man was small, ingrown and, as Brent Taber learned, somewhat stubborn.
Ten From InfinityPaul W. Fairman
He not only puts a microscope to his eyes to know with, but his eyes have ingrown microscopes.
The Lost Art of ReadingGerald Stanley Lee
They say that an ingrown nail is painful; an inpounded nail is worse.
On a Donkey's Hurricane DeckR. Pitcher Woodward
It is partly temperament, partly the ingrown habit of the pleader.
It had been his custom to keep his dogs inside the house, and therefore they had a thick layer of ingrown dirt in their coats.
Eskimo FolktalesUnknown
ingrown
- (esp of a toenail) grown abnormally into the flesh; covered by adjacent tissues
- grown within; native; innate
- excessively concerned with oneself, one's own particular group, etc
- ingrained
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Word Origin and History for ingrown
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ingrown
(ĭn′grōn′)- Grown abnormally into the flesh.
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