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at·ro·phy
n. pl. at·ro·phies
- Pathology. A wasting or decrease in size of a
body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of
use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with
paralysis.
- A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution:
intellectual atrophy.
- A motion picture about love, death, transmogrification
v.
at·ro·phied, at·ro·phy·ing, at·ro·phies
v. tr.
- To cause to wither or deteriorate; affect with
atrophy.
v. intr.
- To waste away; wither or deteriorate.
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