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  • They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size  (source)
    atrophied = weakened (especially from lack of use)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ... the need, to communicate by speech atrophies from disuse and...  (source)
    atrophies = withers or weakens
  • Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.  (source)
    atrophied = withered or weakened from lack of use
  • Muscles that had once been strong began to atrophy despite physiotherapy, underscoring his sense of helplessness.†  (source)
  • Now, what atrophying neural cistern in his brain did that come from?†  (source)
  • The townie rode a motorcycle and had an atrophied left leg.  (source)
    atrophied = withered or weakened
  • 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)
  • 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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