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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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The meaning of ATROPHIED is having wasted away or decreased in size (as from disease or disuse). How to use atrophied in a sentence.
ATROPHIED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of atrophy 2. (of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and…. Learn more.
1. : decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue. atrophy of muscles. also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant. 2. : a wasting away or progressive decline. It was not a solitude of atrophy, of negation, but of perpetual flowering. Willa Cather.
Add to word list. (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. 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. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms.
(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.
Definition of atrophied adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Atrophied definition: exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled. See examples of ATROPHIED used in a sentence.
noun. Also a·tro·phi·a [] Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage. degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.
Describe something as atrophied if it's shrunken or made smaller and weaker because of illness. If you've ever had a broken arm, you know that after months inside a cast your muscles become somewhat atrophied. Medically, when a body part is atrophied, it's started to waste away.
