Definitions for atrophied

atrophied at·ro·phied

Spelling: [a-truh-feed]
IPA: /ˈæ trə fid/

Atrophied is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 674 anagrams from letters in atrophied (adehioprt).

Definitions for atrophied

noun

  1. Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  2. degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse:

adjective

  1. exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to affect with or undergo atrophy.

Origin of atrophied

First recorded in 1590-1600; atrophy + -ed2

Examples for atrophied

The problem is that the physical part of the art of flying has atrophied.

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

Restoring the atrophied Israeli Zionist left is the only way to ensure movement on the peace process.

That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether.

The vulgar quackeries drop off, atrophied, one after another.

As a result, we have no organs of hearing, for they have been atrophied from ages of disuse.

Most pythons have atrophied useless pelvises floating inside their abdomens, not connected to anything.

But the gentler fibers of the man were atrophied by the habits of a lifetime.

The court is an atrophied institution, a circus surviving in the backyard of history.

The optic nerve is a shrunken, atrophied and insensate thread.

Word Value for atrophied
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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