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Old 09-16-2017, 08:55 PM   #3
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deep seated versus deep seeded grammar
What does deep-seated mean?
Deep-seated is the correct expression and is defined as firmly established at a deep or profound level; entrenched.

Shelby has deep-seated anxiety about this situation
He has a deep-seated infection.
People generally get this phrase mixed up because it isn’t that farfetched to think of something firmly established at a deep level as being buried in the ground, i.e., deep-seeded. This, however, is an incorrect reading of the metaphor.
SOURCE : http://writingexplained.org/deep-sea...ded-difference
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