Atrophy
verb
To gradually decline or waste away, often due to lack of use or practice.
If you don't use your muscles for a long time, they will start to atrophy.
Often appears as...
- muscle atrophy
- brain atrophy
noun
The process or result of wasting away due to lack of use or practice.
The patient's muscles showed severe atrophy from years of being bedridden.
Often appears as...
- muscle atrophy
- brain atrophy
verb
To gradually decline or waste away, often due to lack of use or practice.
If you don't use your muscles for a long time, they will start to atrophy.
Often appears as...
- muscle atrophy
- brain atrophy
noun
The process or result of wasting away due to lack of use or practice.
The patient's muscles showed severe atrophy from years of being bedridden.
Often appears as...
- muscle atrophy
- brain atrophy
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Non-medical Usage
Used metaphorically to describe neglect in various contexts, not only physical.
His passion for painting atrophied after years in a stressful job.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Conveys a sense of loss or deterioration; may evoke sympathy or concern.
Without practice, her singing voice atrophied, which saddened her fans.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Process
'Atrophy' implies a slow decline, not something that happens suddenly.
Neglected friendships may atrophy over years of disconnection.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-medical Usage
Used metaphorically to describe neglect in various contexts, not only physical.
His passion for painting atrophied after years in a stressful job.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Conveys a sense of loss or deterioration; may evoke sympathy or concern.
Without practice, her singing voice atrophied, which saddened her fans.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Process
'Atrophy' implies a slow decline, not something that happens suddenly.
Neglected friendships may atrophy over years of disconnection.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-medical Usage
Used metaphorically to describe neglect in various contexts, not only physical.
His passion for painting atrophied after years in a stressful job.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Conveys a sense of loss or deterioration; may evoke sympathy or concern.
Without practice, her singing voice atrophied, which saddened her fans.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Process
'Atrophy' implies a slow decline, not something that happens suddenly.
Neglected friendships may atrophy over years of disconnection.
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Giving a voice to young...
people we have not yet been resigned to the status quo and universally we're still finding our places in the world and while we still face a lot of issues like lack of access to education unemployment or political atrophy we're still at the age where we believe that anything is possible and technology has
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Studying Kids Who Kill PIPE...
understand the systems of the brain that predict these bad things that help to that are different in people who commit these bad crimes it gives us an opportunity to try to develop a treatment for that a way of addressing it if I injured my arm in my this muscle gets atrophied just like these certain
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The incredible...
two hours a day to fend off muscle atrophy, station maintenance and repair, and connecting with family or awe-inspired minds around the world. But they still find time for fun, with regular movie nights and even shooting the first music video in space.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
everything from old models of the corporation, government, media, Wall Street, are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or in atrophy or even failing, and this is now creating a burning platform in the world. I mean, think about Wall Street.
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What makes muscles grow?...
In fact, if you don't continuously expose your muscles to some resistance, they will shrink, a process known as muscular atrophy. In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening,
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Four principles for the...
corporation government media Wall Street are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or an atrophy or even failing and this is now creating a burning platform in the world I mean think about Wall Street the core modus operandi of
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Economic growth has...
of upward mobility, opportunity and improved living standards. Without growth, countries contract and atrophy, not just in the annals of economic statistics but also in the meaning of life and how lives are lived.
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that? Are we as a culture going to start to value knowledge less? As somebody who has always believed in the importance of the stuff that we know,
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Avi Reichental: What’s...
did a great deal to improve humanity, it eradicated the very skill that my grandfather loved, and it atrophied craftsmanship as we know it. But all of that is about to change with 3D printing,
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Jane Velkovski: The...
spinal muscular atrophy, where the muscles are getting weak but the brain remains strong. I love football. I'm a passionate football fan, and my passion has brought me so much joy
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Giving a voice to young...
people we have not yet been resigned to the status quo and universally we're still finding our places in the world and while we still face a lot of issues like lack of access to education unemployment or political atrophy we're still at the age where we believe that anything is possible and technology has
Video examples
Studying Kids Who Kill PIPE...
understand the systems of the brain that predict these bad things that help to that are different in people who commit these bad crimes it gives us an opportunity to try to develop a treatment for that a way of addressing it if I injured my arm in my this muscle gets atrophied just like these certain
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The incredible...
two hours a day to fend off muscle atrophy, station maintenance and repair, and connecting with family or awe-inspired minds around the world. But they still find time for fun, with regular movie nights and even shooting the first music video in space.
Video examples
Don Tapscott: Four...
everything from old models of the corporation, government, media, Wall Street, are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or in atrophy or even failing, and this is now creating a burning platform in the world. I mean, think about Wall Street.
Video examples
What makes muscles grow?...
In fact, if you don't continuously expose your muscles to some resistance, they will shrink, a process known as muscular atrophy. In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening,
Video examples
Four principles for the...
corporation government media Wall Street are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or an atrophy or even failing and this is now creating a burning platform in the world I mean think about Wall Street the core modus operandi of
Video examples
Economic growth has...
of upward mobility, opportunity and improved living standards. Without growth, countries contract and atrophy, not just in the annals of economic statistics but also in the meaning of life and how lives are lived.
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that? Are we as a culture going to start to value knowledge less? As somebody who has always believed in the importance of the stuff that we know,
Video examples
Avi Reichental: What’s...
did a great deal to improve humanity, it eradicated the very skill that my grandfather loved, and it atrophied craftsmanship as we know it. But all of that is about to change with 3D printing,
Video examples
Jane Velkovski: The...
spinal muscular atrophy, where the muscles are getting weak but the brain remains strong. I love football. I'm a passionate football fan, and my passion has brought me so much joy
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Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.
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Scott Kelly
American Astronaut
During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart. Every day, I was exposed to ten times the radiation of a person on Earth, which will increase my risk of a fatal cancer for the rest of my life.
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Irving R. Kaufman
American Judge
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Jeffrey Tate
English Musician
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish Diplomat
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Neil Gaiman
British Author
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
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Karen Duffy
American Actress
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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David E. Kelley
American Producer
My court skills may have atrophied.
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Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.
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Scott Kelly
American Astronaut
During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart. Every day, I was exposed to ten times the radiation of a person on Earth, which will increase my risk of a fatal cancer for the rest of my life.
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Irving R. Kaufman
American Judge
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Jeffrey Tate
English Musician
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish Diplomat
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Neil Gaiman
British Author
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
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Karen Duffy
American Actress
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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David E. Kelley
American Producer
My court skills may have atrophied.
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