Both Uses of
atrophy
in
Travels with Charley
- 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?
Part 3 *atrophied = withered or weakened
- His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it.†
Part 3atrophied = withered or weakened -- especially from lack of use
Definition:
to wither or weaken -- especially from lack of use