Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing inward or into, especially into the flesh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing inward; in surgery, growing into the flesh: as, an ingrowing nail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
growing inwards orabnormally towards (a part of the body)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing abnormally into the flesh
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Examples
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As the child grows older the toenails thicken, and often in their trimming they are cut so closely at the corners that sometimes a condition results known as ingrowing nails.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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"I recently bumped into a Basildon mother of three with an ingrowing toenail and that is why I love the NHS."
The Lib Dems find you don't need to spin when you're winning 2010
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If not bruises or streaky tan then ingrowing hairs or varicose veins.
triangles 2007
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And son Patrick is back at work after having an ingrowing toenail removed.
Archive 2007-05-01 Glyn Davies 2007
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There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op.
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And son Patrick is back at work after having an ingrowing toenail removed.
Flying High Again Glyn Davies 2007
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June 27, 2007 10:47 AM , ingrowing toenail said...
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+ Broon could still fall under the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/unfortunate complications from an ingrowing toe nail operation.
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Not just the clap, a cold as well, a sore throat, a bad stomach, an ingrowing toenail.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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The fundamental problem with musicals is that when any music starts, you KNOW the narrative has to stop so some miserable old bag can sing a song about her ingrowing toenails or whatever.
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