Atrophy



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GRE 红宝书

After trying continuously for the last 10 successive years, He may not able to get a medal in the Olympic Games. Feeling dejected, he atrophied his energies.

• n. v.萎缩, 衰退
• ［英］ n. v.萎缩, 衰退 ( a wasting away of body tissue)
• ［记］ a+troph ( 营养) +y -> 无营养 -> 衰退
• ［同］ 同根词: trophy ( 奖品)
• ［例］ The disease atrophied her legs.

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -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 plant
• 2. 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
• • atrophic adjective
• • atrophy verb

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