(Of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use.
1 The problem was harnessing the agency's atrophied powers to that new mission.
2 That sense may have atrophied long ago, if we ever had it.
3 He nodded and pulled his atrophied left hand up with his right.
4 I think his legs have completely atrophied ; perhaps his arms as well.
5 It may also occur in connection with atrophied kidneys, weak heart, etc.
6 Commonly accompanying quarter-crack is the condition of contracted heels and atrophied frog.
7 I confess that I came out of college with my initiative atrophied .
8 She sometimes thought that but for Jeanie it would have atrophied altogether.
9 Their children couldn't walk or even stand, their legs thin and atrophied .
10 My profession demands a clear intellect, not a brain atrophied by nicotine.
11 There had been little strife over the millennia and Ares felt atrophied .
12 Labour's party machine has atrophied during 10 years of power and growing disillusionment.
13 In this case, evolution means an atrophied speech center and a steel boomerang.
14 Other industries, such as fur trapping, had atrophied as a result.
15 But after a few generations in the Information Age, these muscles have atrophied .
16 A source close to the strikers said their muscles had atrophied .
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