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    Use "atrophied" in a sentence

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    atrophied


    1. You could see that the boy’s legs were atrophied


    2. His little atrophied legs hung down as Christ held him


    3. The time she spent in the hospital had not atrophied her shape


    4. That glow had then enveloped James, with his two atrophied legs growing back healthy and strong in a mere minute


    5. Over the years, the ‘umbrella’ party that could co-opt and accommodate conflicting interest groups has badly atrophied, to the point where decay has now set in


    6. Consider this… if Dolly could be born from just a single mammary gland cell, what can’t we do with our hundreds of eggs apiece, once our atrophied, but still-inherent powers are kicked back into operational mode? Want to know more? Email me at: maia3maia@hotmail


    7. He had atrophied, petrified, gone dim and quiet and slow, and only wanting, she decided with impulsive unfairness, to avoid trouble


    8. If the possibility to walk or fly appears too late in the life of an animal, the limbs might already be so atrophied that it is too late for the animal to ever learn to walk or fly


    9. muscles had atrophied to the point that they were not much more


    10. Otherwise their upper limbs would have atrophied like the useless paws of the Kangaroo did

    11. Had he been forced, like a lot of church kids, in order to set an example, to spend half his school holidays at the services? Had he never gone fishing for newts in the nearest pond, bringing them home triumphantly in a jam-jar? Had he never kept green caterpillars in a match-box, waiting for them to change magically into butterflies? Had his youth been the joyless one Rafferty imagined it to be? Spent joining in doleful hymns shut inside a damp church while the world and the birds outside were singing sweeter songs? If so, it was no wonder if his youth and capacity for joy had atrophied


    12. Trying to will himself into total deadness, until his limbs atrophied


    13. later it becomes small, shrunken, and atrophied


    14. Closed-end stock funds, although popular during the 1980s, have slowly atrophied


    15. Her teeth sank away from her lips, the delicate fingers hung like charred twigs from her atrophied wrists


    16. If this people has so atrophied its taste buds as to find tasteless food not only acceptable but desirable, what of the emotional life of the nation? Do they find their emotional fare so bland that it must be spiced with sex and sadism through the medium of the paperback? And if this is so, why are there no condiments save ketchup and mustard to enhance their foods?


    17. His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it


    18. His power to reason has relieved them of many of their duties, and so they have, to some extent, atrophied, as have the muscles which move the ears and scalp, merely from disuse


    19. When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality


    20. Again, no one will say that rudimentary or atrophied organs are of high physiological or vital importance; yet, undoubtedly, organs in this condition are often of much value in classification

    21. In reflecting on them, every one must be struck with astonishment; for the same reasoning power which tells us that most parts and organs are exquisitely adapted for certain purposes, tells us with equal plainness that these rudimentary or atrophied organs are imperfect and useless


    22. For the most part they are able writers, educated and clever, but with their capacity of being infected by art quite perverted or atrophied


    23. And yet, externally, they are, to a man of perverted or atrophied artistic perception, precisely alike


    24. The receptive feeling for art of these people is atrophied, and in valuing artistic productions they must be guided by discussion and study, which discussion and study completely confuse them


    25. But though it is impossible to undeceive these people, just as it is impossible to convince a man suffering from "Daltonism" that green is not red, yet, for all that, this indication remains perfectly definite to those whose feeling for art is neither perverted nor atrophied, and it clearly distinguishes the feeling produced by art from all other feelings


    26. To live as do the rich, idle people, especially the women, far from nature and from animals, in artificial conditions, with muscles atrophied or misdeveloped by gymnastics, and with enfeebled vital energy, would be impossible were it not for what is called art—for this occupation and amusement which hides from them the meaninglessness of their lives, and saves them from the dullness that oppresses them


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    Synonyms for "atrophied"

    atrophied diminished wasted

    "atrophied" definitions

    (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use