atrophy

Speech parts

1. atrophy - Noun

2. atrophy - Verb

Meaning

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

To waste away; to dwindle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wasting withering moulder necrosis blight cyanosis rheum decline consumption decay waste flag collapse degradation sink
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Antonyms

strengthen hypertrophy acme life power development
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Hypernyms

weakening shrink wither symptom shrivel shrivel up

Hyponyms

amyotrophy tabes amyotrophia kraurosis

Phrases with the word

adrenal atrophy chorioretinal atrophy choroidal atrophy muscle atrophy spinal muscular atrophy, type 0 spinal muscular atrophy, type 1

Derivatives

atrophied

Examples

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. Dag Hammarskjöld

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things. Alexander Graham Bell

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright

For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. Thomas Carlyle

Close letter words and terms

atrophoderma atrophoderma vermiculata atrophoderma vermiculatum atropia Atropidae atropin