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ingrooved

ingrooved is the simple past and past participle of ingroove.

Meaning of ingroove

Verb

ingroove (third-person singular simple present ingrooves, present participle ingrooving, simple past and past participle ingrooved)

  1. (transitive) To form a groove in.
    • The fine sand, the cylindrical stones of the gravel-bed, perhaps also the compact andd tough ice itself, polish the angular crystals, grind the polished surfaces, and so powerful is the pressure, by which these scratches are ingrooved, that even the quartz-veins of the rocks are not excempt from...1842, The American Eclectic
  2. To connect or fit together by fitting into a groove; to slot in.
    • So let the change which comes be free
      To ingroove itself with that, which flies1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

Questions about ingrooved

What is ingrooved the simple past and past participle of?
Ingrooved is the simple past and past participle of ingroove.

Words near ingrooved in the dictionary

  1. Ingria
  2. Ingrian
  3. Ingrians
  4. Ingrid
  5. ingroove
  6. ingrooved
  7. ingrooves
  8. ingrooving
  9. ingross
  10. ingrosse
  11. ingrossed

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