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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-atrophy.wav Forms: atrophies [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|atrophie}} French atrophie, {{der|en|la|atrophia}} Latin atrophia, {{der|en|grc|ἀτροφία||a wasting away}} Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), {{affix|en|a-|-trophy}} a- + -trophy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)
  1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology Translations (reduced functionality): atrofi (Albanian), ضُمُور (ḍumūr) [masculine] (Arabic), تَلَاشٍ (talāšin) [masculine] (Arabic), атрафі́я (atrafíja) [feminine] (Belarusian), атрофия (atrofija) (Bulgarian), atròfia [feminine] (Catalan), zakrnění [neuter] (Czech), atrofi [common-gender] (Danish), atrofie [feminine] (Dutch), atrofio (Esperanto), svinn [neuter] (Faroese), atrofia (Finnish), atropia (Finnish), surkastuma (Finnish), surkastuminen (Finnish), atrophie [feminine] (French), Atrophie [feminine] (German), ατροφία (atrofía) [feminine] (Greek), rýrnun [masculine] (Icelandic), atrofia (Italian), atrofija [feminine] (Lithuanian), atrofi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), atrofi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), atrofia [feminine] (Polish), atrofia [feminine] (Portuguese), atrofie [feminine] (Romanian), atrofiere [feminine] (Romanian), атрофи́я (atrofíja) [feminine] (Russian), atrufìa [feminine] (Sicilian), atrofia [feminine] (Spanish), atrofi [common-gender] (Swedish), atrofi (Turkish), атрофі́я (atrofíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-atrophy.wav Forms: atrophies [present, singular, third-person], atrophying [participle, present], atrophied [participle, past], atrophied [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|atrophie}} French atrophie, {{der|en|la|atrophia}} Latin atrophia, {{der|en|grc|ἀτροφία||a wasting away}} Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), {{affix|en|a-|-trophy}} a- + -trophy Head templates: {{en-verb}} atrophy (third-person singular simple present atrophies, present participle atrophying, simple past and past participle atrophied)
  1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. Tags: intransitive Translations ((intransitive) wither or waste away): ضَمُرَ (ḍamura) (Arabic), تَلَاشَى (talāšā) (Arabic), атрафі́равацца (atrafíravacca) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), атрофирам (atrofiram) (Bulgarian), atrofiar-se (Catalan), 萎縮 (Chinese Mandarin), 萎缩 (wěisuō) (Chinese Mandarin), zakrnět (Czech), surkastua (Finnish), näivettyä (Finnish), atrophier (French), absterben (German), ατροφώ (atrofó) (Greek), μαραίνομαι (maraínomai) (Greek), atrofiar (Ido), atrofuoti (Lithuanian), atrofuotis (Lithuanian), whakamemeke (Maori), atrofiar (Portuguese), atrofia (Romanian), атрофи́роваться (atrofírovatʹsja) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), atrofiarse (Spanish), atrofiera (Swedish), körelmek (Turkish), атрофува́тися (atrofuvátysja) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken. Tags: transitive Translations ((transitive) cause to waste away): атрофи́ровать (atrofírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), атрофува́ти (atrofuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: -trophy, hypotrophy, decondition

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rýrnun"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "word": "atrofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofija"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofiere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "atrofíja",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "атрофи́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrufìa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "atrofi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "word": "atrofi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "atrofíja",
      "sense": "reduced functionality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "атрофі́я"
    }
  ],
  "word": "atrophy"
}

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    {
      "word": "hypertrophy"
    },
    {
      "word": "strengthen"
    }
  ],
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    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
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    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Albanian translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Faroese translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Sicilian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "atrophie"
      },
      "expansion": "French atrophie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "atrophia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin atrophia",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἀτροφία",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a wasting away"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "a-",
        "3": "-trophy"
      },
      "expansion": "a- + -trophy",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "atrophies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "atrophying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "atrophied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "atrophied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "-trophy"
    },
    {
      "word": "hypotrophy"
    },
    {
      "word": "decondition"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1987 June 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):",
          "text": "Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The M10 highway looks normal enough at the southern limits of St. Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy. For the next 430 miles the surface of the highway, while paved, varies from corduroy to jaw-rattling patchwork.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wither or waste away."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wither",
          "wither"
        ],
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To wither or waste away."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Tool (lyrics and music), “Schism”:",
          "text": "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈæt.ɹə.fi/"
    },
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḍamura",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "ضَمُرَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "talāšā",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "تَلَاشَى"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "atrafíravacca",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "атрафі́равацца"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "atrofiram",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "атрофирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofiar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "萎縮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wěisuō",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "萎缩"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "zakrnět"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "surkastua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "näivettyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrophier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "absterben"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "atrofó",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "ατροφώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "maraínomai",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "μαραίνομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofuoti"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofuotis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "whakamemeke"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "atrofírovatʹsja",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "атрофи́роваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofiarse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "atrofiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "word": "körelmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "atrofuvátysja",
      "sense": "(intransitive) wither or waste away",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "атрофува́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "atrofírovatʹ",
      "sense": "(transitive) cause to waste away",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "атрофи́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "atrofuváty",
      "sense": "(transitive) cause to waste away",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "атрофува́ти"
    }
  ],
  "word": "atrophy"
}

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