atrophy
美音:[´ætrəfı
]
英音:[´ætrəfı
]
n.萎缩,萎缩症
难易程度:
atrophy为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词复数:atrophies 动词过去式:atrophied 过去分词:atrophied 现在分词:atrophying 第三人称单数:atrophies 形容词:atrophic
近义词, 同义词
contraction reduction diminution decrease of size defalcation decrement lessening shrinking compaction collapse emaciation attenuation consumption atrophy condensation compression compactness compendium squeezing strangulation astringency astringent compressibilitydisease illness sickness ailing sickness infirmity ailment indisposition complaint disorder malady attack seizure stroke fit atrophy indigestion decay deterioration decline
atrophy
/'ætrəfɪ; `ætrəfɪ/
n [U] wasting away of the body or part of it through lack of nourishment or use （身体或身体某部因缺乏营养或不常使用而）萎缩
*(fig 比喻) The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge. 除非能多涌现出一些作家和艺术家, 否则这个国家的文化生活将枯萎衰退.
v (pt, pp -ied) [I, Tn] (cause sth to) suffer atrophy （使某事物）萎缩
*atrophied limbs, muscles 萎缩的肢体, 肌肉.
n [U] wasting away of the body or part of it through lack of nourishment or use （身体或身体某部因缺乏营养或不常使用而）萎缩
*(fig 比喻) The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge. 除非能多涌现出一些作家和艺术家, 否则这个国家的文化生活将枯萎衰退.
v (pt, pp -ied) [I, Tn] (cause sth to) suffer atrophy （使某事物）萎缩
*atrophied limbs, muscles 萎缩的肢体, 肌肉.
atrophy
v past tense and past participleatrophiedpresent participleatrophyingthird person singularatrophies [I and T]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Late Latin;Origin: atrophia 'becoming smaller or weaker', from Greek, from atrophos 'badly fed', from trephein 'to feed']
if a part of the body atrophies or is atrophied, it becomes weak because of lack of use or lack of blood
therapy to prevent the leg muscles from atrophying
>atrophyn[U]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Late Latin;Origin: atrophia 'becoming smaller or weaker', from Greek, from atrophos 'badly fed', from trephein 'to feed']
if a part of the body atrophies or is atrophied, it becomes weak because of lack of use or lack of blood
therapy to prevent the leg muscles from atrophying
>atrophyn[U]
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