Synonyms for atrophy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : a-truh-fee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæ trə fi

Définition 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

Antonyms for atrophy

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