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atrophied, ppl. a.|ˈætrəfɪd| Also 6 atrofied. [f. atrophy + -ed.] Affected with atrophy; starved, wasted, emaciated. Also fig.
1597Lowe Art Chyrurg. (1634) 59 The bodie..becommeth atrofied and leane. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. II. 79/2 The muscles..for want of use are more or less wasted and atrophied. 1876Bancroft Hist. U. S. VI. 533 The people, weary of atrophied institutions, yearn for fuller knowledge of the rules of right. |