Crossword-Solution: ATROPHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atrophy | n. | A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. |
| Atrophy | v. t. | To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken. |
| Atrophy | v. i. | To waste away; to dwindle. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATROPHY (5)
Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.
Airy, Maryland, when he wrote: A kitten has taken up with a poor cripple dying of muscular atrophy who cannot move.
From the Minutes An Orator afflicted with atrophy of the organ of common-sense rose in his place in the halls of legislation and pointed with pride to his Unblotted Escutcheon.
But poverty was bringing out in her all those meanest and most selfish and most brutish instincts--those primal instincts of human nature that civilization has slowly been subjecting to the process of atrophy which has lost us such other primal attributes as, for example, prehensile toes and a covering of hair.
For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on machinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator, such dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the worker's intuitional faculties.
Quotes with ATROPHY (3)
I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I …
And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background. Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins spl…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).