atrophied
Example Sentences
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“It’s like a muscle that maybe has atrophied a little bit over the years,” Gould said in his interview with the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Those muscles atrophied, leaving a huge opportunity for someone like Matt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025
Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
Because the violin is much lighter than the viola, my atrophied arm muscles were able to hold it.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2023
But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
