noun, verb
noun [U] (medical) the condition of losing flesh, muscle, strength, etc. in a part of the body because it does not have enough blood: (figurative, formal) The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
verb (atrophies, atrophying, atrophied, atrophied) [V] if a part of the body atrophies, it becomes weak because it is not used or because it does not have enough blood: (figurative) Memory can atrophy through lack of use.
atrophied adjective:
atrophied muscles * atrophied religious values
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for atrophy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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