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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. (source)atrophy = wither or weaken -- especially from lack of use
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most bugger soldiers are females, but with atrophied... sexual organs. (source)atrophied = withered (shrunken and deteriorated)
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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. (source)atrophied = withered
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They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size (source)atrophied = weakened (especially from lack of use)
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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. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened -- especially from lack of use
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They are atrophied, probably beyond hope of recovery. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened
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"The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead," she said sharply. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened
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To counteract the malign spell which she imagined poor Eustacia to be working, the boy's mother busied herself with a ghastly invention of superstition, calculated to bring powerlessness, atrophy, and annihilation on any human being against whom it was directed. (source)atrophy = withering or weakness
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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. (source)atrophying = withered or weakened
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... the need, to communicate by speech atrophies from disuse and... (source)atrophies = withers or weakens
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Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened from lack of use
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Muscles that had once been strong began to atrophy despite physiotherapy, underscoring his sense of helplessness.† (source)
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Now, what atrophying neural cistern in his brain did that come from?† (source)
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The townie rode a motorcycle and had an atrophied left leg. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened
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One month ago he could hardly get out of his chair, which is partly due to muscle atrophy from being in bed for so long.† (source)
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That's to try and keep his physical condition up—to stop him atrophying and his bones demineralizing, his legs pooling, that kind of thing.† (source)
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