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单词 atrophies
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atrophies in British English

3rd person singular present tense of verb
1.  atrophy
plural noun
2.  atrophy
 

atrophy in British English

(ˈætrəfɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -phies
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
verbWord forms: -phies, -phying or -phied
3. 
to waste away or cause to waste away
Derived forms
atrophic (əˈtrɒfɪk)
adjective
Word origin
C17: from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill-fed, from a-1 + -trophos from trephein to feed

Examples of 'atrophies' in a sentence
atrophies

Starve a soul of prayer and it atrophies and withers.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Worse still, debt begets debt as the rest of the economy atrophies.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In fact, imaging shows that when we are in constant pain, the brain atrophies.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Without such military drills, capacity atrophies and deterrence withers.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
If you deprive players of responsibility, their capacity for initiative atrophies.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Polio atrophies the muscles, and the surgery involved having one of my knees clamped.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Given most people's appetite for new music atrophies in their thirties, think how cohesive it would be.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But on entering freshwater the stomach of a mature salmon atrophies and the fish probably loses all interest in food.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
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