atrophy

英语

借自法语 atrophie，源自拉丁语 atrophia，源自古希腊语 ἀτροφία (atrophía, “衰弱”)，源自ἄτροφος (átrophos, “营养不良的，饮食不足的”)，源自ἀ- (a-, “不”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “营养”)，源自τρέφω (tréphō, “使...变胖”)。等价于a- +‎ -trophy。

atrophy (可数和不可数，复数 atrophies)

atrophy (第三人称单数简单现在时 atrophies，现在分词 atrophying，一般过去时及过去分词 atrophied)

(不及物) 衰弱，枯萎，衰退（自18世纪初叶）
- 1987年6月13日, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
  Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.
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- 2013年10月13日, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1]:
  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.
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(及物) 使...衰弱，弱化To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
- 2001, Tool （作曲作词）, “Schism”:
  Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
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