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Antonyms for atrophy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : a-truh-fee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæ trə fi

Definition of atrophy

Origin :
  • "a wasting away through lack of nourishment," 1620s (atrophied is from 1590s), from French atrophie, from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia "a wasting away," noun of state from atrophos "ill-fed, un-nourished," from a- "not" + trophe "nourishment," from trephein "to fatten" (see -trophy).
  • noun wasting away, disintegration
Example sentences :
  • In at least this age and country it exists as the atrophy of a cureless decline.
  • Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller
  • The victim of obesity has no sympathies with the martyr to atrophy; he may envy, he cannot pity him.
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
  • Our faculties, like our jaws, atrophy if we do not use them to bite with.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • But the atrophy of responsibility proved the canker at the heart of the Empire.
  • Extract from : « Progress and History » by Various
  • They pay the penalty in an atrophy of the faculties of reflection and representation.
  • Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
  • Atrophy is partial and special in its operation, nanism is general.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
  • The ovary of aconites, according to Moquin, is very subject to atrophy.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
  • Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?
  • Extract from : « Democracy An American Novel » by Henry Adams
  • Did God require in His service the atrophy of the affections?
  • Extract from : « The Golden House » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • The danger of atrophy is sufficient reason for the mutilation.
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley

Synonyms for atrophy

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