Definitions for ingrown

ingrown in·grown

Spelling: [in-grohn]
IPA: /ˈɪnˌgroʊn/

Ingrown is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in ingrown (ginnorw).

Definitions for ingrown

adjective

  1. having grown into the flesh:
  2. grown within or inward.

Origin of ingrown

First recorded in 1660-70; in-1 + grown

Examples for ingrown

It took that hideous affliction to remove the even more hideous affliction of destructive and ingrown stories.

The man was small, ingrown and, as Brent Taber learned, somewhat stubborn.

He was a brooding, ingrown man, secretive and sullen, with a streak of wildness which he usually managed to control.

But the place itself has become oddly small: ingrown, imprisoned by habit, oblivious to its own growing irrelevance.

Excision of the cutting edge of the nail, as in radical operation of ingrown nail, eliminates only that element of discomfort.

They say that an ingrown nail is painful; an inpounded nail is worse.

In my ingrown heart I hate him so there is no danger for me, tho' I've heard that he's a perfect fusser with the women.

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.

It is partly temperament, partly the ingrown habit of the pleader.

He not only puts a microscope to his eyes to know with, but his eyes have ingrown microscopes.

Word Value for ingrown
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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