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- Dictionaryatrophied/ˈatrəfɪd/
adjective
- 1. (of body tissue or an organ) wasted away or rudimentary: "atrophied muscles"
- 2. having lost effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect: "the atrophied global economy contains numerous areas of chronic weakness"
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verb [ I ] uk / ˈæt.rə.fi / us / ˈæt.rə.fi / (of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and therefore strength, or, more generally, to become weaker: After several months in a hospital bed, my leg muscles had atrophied. In the 1980s, their political power gradually atrophied (= became weaker). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
1. : having wasted away or decreased in size (as from disease or disuse) Astronauts and test animals have returned to Earth with atrophied muscles … Ivan Amato. 2. : having progressively declined or weakened.
The meaning of ATROPHY is decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant. How to use atrophy in a sentence. What Can atrophy?
(of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and therefore strength, or, more generally, to become weaker: After several months in a hospital bed, my leg muscles had atrophied. In the 1980s, their political power gradually atrophied (= became weaker). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Disorders of muscles & the nervous system.
noun Word forms: plural -phies. 1. a wasting away of an organ or part, or a failure to grow to normal size as the result of disease, faulty nutrition, etc. 2. any degeneration or diminution, esp through lack of use. verb Word forms: -phies, -phying, -phied. 3. to waste away or cause to waste away.
(of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and therefore strength, or, more generally, to become weaker: After several months in a hospital bed, my leg muscles had atrophied. In the 1980s, their political power gradually atrophied (= became weaker). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Disorders of muscles & the nervous system.
(of a part of the body) having lost fat, muscle, strength, etc. because of a lack of blood. atrophied muscles. (figurative, formal) atrophied religious values. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness. [formal] Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame. [VERB] Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool. [VERB-ed]
atrophied typically occurs about 0.3 times per million words in modern written English. atrophied is in frequency band 4, which contains words occurring between 0.1 and 1 times per million words in modern written English.
1. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis. 2. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy. v. at·ro·phied, at·ro·phy·ing, at·ro·phies. v.tr. To cause to wither or deteriorate; affect with atrophy. v.intr.
