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atrophied
adjective as in emaciated
adjective as in skeletal
Example Sentences
“Our statewide Republican fundraising has atrophied because it has been over a generation since we had a viable statewide candidate in California,” he said.
"Our democratic muscles have atrophied, and I hope they can be reinvigorated before it's too late."
Any principles beyond those have atrophied into invisibility.
Those muscles atrophied, leaving a huge opportunity for someone like Matt.
“Although his boss had to pretend to embrace the family-friendly nature of the town whose newspaper he ran,” Roman observes, “privately he was a man with a heart as atrophied as his calf muscles.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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