Sample Sentences foratrophy (auto-selected)
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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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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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most bugger soldiers are females, but with atrophied... sexual organs. (source)atrophied = withered (shrunken and deteriorated)
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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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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)
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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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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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Her ... thigh was atrophied by the deep incisions Dr. Sasaki had made. (source)atrophied = made weaker (and smaller)
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Hadn't you heard that it was getting hotter because of this tilt, this ever increasing tilt of the earth, which was inevitable and not humanity's fault, not our cars or emissions or Aqua Net but plain and simple entropy, or was it atrophy, or was it apathy?† (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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The townie rode a motorcycle and had an atrophied left leg. (source)atrophied = withered or weakened
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Muscles continued to atrophy.† (source)
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Now, what atrophying neural cistern in his brain did that come from?† (source)
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