Significados de become atrophied en inglés

I trust that ours may not become atrophied by self-suppression.

His conscience, if he had ever had one, had become atrophied through long disuse.

So used was she to hiding the truth that it had become atrophied in her.

When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality.

Sometimes, as I have already suggested, the faculties of sensation become atrophied, if indeed they ever existed.

Every one knows how the ears vary in size in different breeds, and with their great development their muscles become atrophied.

He points out that typical community life in America has now become atrophied and it is high time to colonize another land.

With the advancement of knowledge this capacity and desire become atrophied, but spring into life again in the presence of a popular stimulant.

When unfavourable external conditions supervene and the ordinary cells become atrophied, these cells persist and reproduce the plant with the return of more favourable conditions.

An imagination which might well have become atrophied through disuse had him as thoroughly in its control as ever he had had his Pickering Giant.

The disuse of a faculty leads to its loss; and so, with the cessation of the desire for song, the gift of singing became atrophied.