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Definition
to wither or weaken — especially from lack of use- Muscles that are not used will quickly atrophy.
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
- We were worried about atrophy-her muscles, her brain...Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- "The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead," she said sharply.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Her ... thigh was atrophied by the deep incisions Dr. Sasaki had made.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- most bugger soldiers are females, but with atrophied... sexual organs.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- 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
- The townie rode a motorcycle and had an atrophied left leg.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- ... the need, to communicate by speech atrophies from disuse and...William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
- They are atrophied, probably beyond hope of recovery.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing sizeMitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 = weakened or withered
atrophy = to wither or weaken — especially from lack of use
atrophied = withered or weakened
atrophied = made weaker (and smaller)
atrophied = withered (shrunken and deteriorated)
atrophied = withered or weakened from lack of use
atrophied = withered or weakened
atrophied = withered or weakened
atrophies = withers or weakens
atrophied = withered or weakened
atrophied = weakened (especially from lack of use)
atrophied = withered (wasted away and perhaps no longer usable)
atrophied = withered
atrophy = wither or weaken — especially from lack of use
atrophied = weakened
atrophying = withered or weakened
atrophied = withered or weakened — especially from lack of use