Definition of Atrophy

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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.

Related Definitions:

Abortive, Any, Away, Become, Body, Bulk, Cause, Diminution, Dwindle, Emaciation, From, In, Nourishment, Of, Or, Part, Slow, Starve, The, To, Want, Waste, Wasting, Weaken

Atrophy Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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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