Atrophy
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.
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Atrophy Quotations
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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 Hammarskjold
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Jack LaLanne
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Martha Gellhorn
Atrophy Translations
atrophy in French is fading, atrophier, atrophient, atrophions
atrophy in Italian is scomparsa
atrophy in Spanish is atrofia
atrophy in Swedish is atrofiera
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