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Like some painful hairs
Answer for the clue "Like some painful hairs ", 7 letters:
ingrown
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Word definitions for ingrown in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "native, innate," from in + grown . Of nails, "that has grown into the flesh," 1878.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail" [syn: ingrowing ]
Usage examples of ingrown.
In short, Lady Polaris was a perfect representation of the Empire of Netheril: self-consumed, bloated, ingrown, oblivious to rampant decay, and fuzzy minded.
I am looking for better ways to cure warts without surgery, to clear up acne, to banish horrid age spots, prevent ingrown toenails, athlete's foot, and dandruff, to straighten hair and curl hair, to give nose jobs, to improve bustlines and bottoms and such.
Soon a campaign poster was designed, but Chemo recoiled when he saw the finished product: the four-foot photographic blowup of his face magnified the two ingrown hair follicles on the tip of his otherwise normal nose.
She's got crabs, and lice, and about eight billion venereal infections, and every ingrown hair and toenail usually develops into this oozing, life-threatening abscess.
I finally spotted it, a street about the size of an ingrown hair, off an equally obscure lane in the foothills that stretch across the back of town.
The Japanese-made sight was amazing and he could see tiny imperfections-like a pimple or an ingrown hair on the kids' individual faces.
What I was saying was I'd become a man with an ingrown hair that needed digging and tweezing.
One saw boils, pimples, ingrown hair, rashes, buboes, lesions, and skin rot of a severity and variety you'd expect to see in some jungle backwater.
By the time of my death I was an ingrown toenail of a man, halfway to hermitage, interacting with my world as little as possible and doing my very best to influence no one's life.
Disbanding it would be like cutting off your leg because you've an ingrown toenail.
It was a long week, and it was odd finding bits of nine-hundred-year-old love letters, or scraps of advice on curing hypothermia, or how to tell if an ingrown toenail is the result of a curse.
Star becomes convinced that Captain Cork went uncorked and wigged when he lost his leg during a simple ingrown toenail operation bungled by a hip young chiropodist stoned on mescaline.
Her balls were shaved, as was the rest of her pubic hair, just a bit of stubble and a few ingrown bumps.