1. atrophy - Noun
2. atrophy - Verb
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 dictionaryLife 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