ingrown
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- adjective
- /ˈɪŋˌɡroʊn/
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encarnado
- Adina, those are the worst ingrown hairs I've ever seen.
- an ingrown toenail
- an ingrown hair
- an ingrown nail
Yeah, It's a piece of piece of just ingrown hair by my butt.
- Yeah, It's a piece of piece of just ingrown hair by my butt.
- Like for me, I just got waxed because I get really bad ingrown hairs whenever I shave.
- No, I just get so many ingrown hairs.
- Then there's always crabs and ingrown toenails and people who insist they're your friends.
- So before we jump into the, the questions here, I have this horrible ingrown hair on my ass right now.
- So sometimes I'll get like ingrown hairs or zits around where I shave, which sucks.
- I think it's close to impossible, but I will tell you to avoid getting ingrown hairs I shave with the grain which gets a pretty darn close shave.
- Like can't you just call it like, hey, this is my ingrown cream.
Examples
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And she goes, no, like, sweetie, that's just an ingrown hair.
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I liked him tremendously—had an ingrown toenail that got infected in spite of all I could do.
Fiction book (1994) -
What, you have a... an ingrown hair or something?
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It's either, like, really ingrown or looking to escape.
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"The bump was merely an ingrown hair.
Fiction book (1990) -
I think he talked about, like, an ingrown toenail or something.
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An ingrown toenail, at the very most.
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Regular exfoliation is necessary to rid the residue and keep the area clean, and may help remove ingrown hair.
Blog text (17) -
I've got an ingrown toenail, but, Emily...
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An ingrown toenail can be very painful if not treated properly.
Synonyms
A nail or hair that pushes into the skin and causes pain and swelling
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Ingrown is made of in- meaning 'in' and grown from 'to grow', so it literally means 'grown in'. That's why an ingrown hair or nail has pushed into the skin instead of growing outward.