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inground

inground is the alternative form of enground.

Meaning of enground

Verb

enground (third-person singular simple present engrounds, present participle engrounding, simple past and past participle engrounded)

  1. (rare, transitive) To instill or establish.
    • […] to enground in the consciousness of his child a beginning of international sense, a feeling of brotherhood for his fellows […]1926, Progressive Education, volume 3, page 314

Adjective

inground (not comparable)

  1. Inside the ground.
    • We snuck to the side of the house, and through a giant trellis we could see the glorious sparkling water in a half inground, half aboveground pool, complete with a beach ball and other floaty things.2006 July 21, Liz Armstrong, “Summertime Slump”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of inground

third-person singular presentingrounds
present participleingrounding
past participleingrounded
pastingrounded

Questions about inground

What does inground mean?
Inground means inside the ground.
What is inground the alternative form of?
Inground is the alternative form of enground.
What part of speech is inground?
Inground is an adjective.

Words near inground in the dictionary

  1. ingrosses
  2. ingrosseth
  3. ingrossing
  4. ingrossment
  5. ingrossments
  6. inground
  7. ingrounded
  8. ingrounding
  9. ingrounds
  10. ingroup
  11. ingrouped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inground (page history and authors); enground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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