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atrophy

Main Entry:: at·ro·phy
Pronunciation:: \ˈa-trə-fē\
Function:: noun
Inflected Form(s):: plural at·ro·phies
Etymology:: Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a- + trephein to nourish
Date:: 1601

1: decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue ; also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant2: a wasting away or progressive decline : degeneration <the atrophy of freedom> <was not a solitude of atrophy, of negation, but of perpetual flowering — Willa Cather>

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\(ˌ)ā-ˈtrō-fik\ adjective

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\ˈa-trə-fē, -ˌfī\ verb

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