Ingrown

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  • adjective. Grown abnormally into the flesh.
  • adjective. Innate or inveterate.
  • adjective. Having the attention focused inward; having little exchange with others; insular.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Grown from within; innate: as, “Art with Language lived ingrown,”
  • Grown inward: as, an ingrown nail.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having grown or appearing to grow into some other substance, especially a fingernail or toenail growing into the adjacent flesh.
  • adjective. a toenail whose edges have becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That has grown inwards or abnormally towards (part of the body)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. growing abnormally into the flesh
  • Word Usage
    "Truth, purity, firmness, love to Jesus, all that belongs to a formal conversion and more, is centralized thus in the soul, as a kind of ingrown habit."
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    unhealthy  
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