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to wither or weaken — especially from lack of use

atrophy = wither or weaken — especially from lack of use

atrophy of the temporal lobes of the brain
Work with a physical therapist helped minimize muscle atrophy while she healed.
He felt as if there was something atrophied between his eyes, where the base of the nose grew into the skull.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

atrophied = weakened or withered

We were worried about atrophy-her muscles, her brain...
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host

atrophy = to wither or weaken — especially from lack of use

"The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead," she said sharply.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

atrophied = withered or weakened

Her ... thigh was atrophied by the deep incisions Dr. Sasaki had made.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

atrophied = made weaker (and smaller)

most bugger soldiers are females, but with atrophied... sexual organs.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

atrophied = withered (shrunken and deteriorated)

Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

atrophied = withered or weakened from lack of use

If this people has so atrophied its taste buds as to find tasteless food not only acceptable but desirable, what of the emotional life of the nation?
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

atrophied = withered or weakened

The townie rode a motorcycle and had an atrophied left leg.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

atrophied = withered or weakened

... the need, to communicate by speech atrophies from disuse and...
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!

atrophies = withers or weakens

They are atrophied, probably beyond hope of recovery.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

atrophied = withered or weakened

They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

atrophied = weakened (especially from lack of use)

Turning, I saw a little woman standing on the stoop with a green coat covering her head and shoulders, its sleeves hanging limp like extra atrophied arms.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

atrophied = withered (wasted away and perhaps no longer usable)

But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

atrophied = withered

He kept thinking of a college physiology class he had taken, in which the instructor had taught them to think of the mind as a muscle that would atrophy if left idle.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

atrophy = wither or weaken — especially from lack of use

It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson

atrophied = weakened

Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, staring blankly at the ceiling, arms curled tightly at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below eighty pounds.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

atrophying = withered or weakened

That next month, the cast came off. ...I spent a couple of months learning to walk again, first with a walking cast, then with a pretty nasty limp, slowly working my atrophied muscles back to health again.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

atrophied = withered or weakened — especially from lack of use

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