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Definition: Atrophied |
AtrophiedAdjective1. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "atrophied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: AtrophiedSynonyms: diminished (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hypertrophied (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Atrophied |
| English words defined with "atrophied": diminished ♦ wasted. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Seychelles | While the tourism and industrial fishing industries were on a roll in the late 1990s, the traditional plantation economy atrophied. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Atrophied" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 55.00% of the time. "Atrophied" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 55% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
atrophied | 2 |
atrophied kidney | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "atrophied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i atrofizuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضامر (lank, lean, raw boned, scraggy, skinny, slender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | закърнял (aborted, abortive, obsolete, stunted, vestigial), атрофиран (vestigial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | atrofovaný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | atrophié. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verkümmert (becomes stunted, rusty, stunted, vestigial, withered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elsenyvedt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirgit (contracted, decrepit, dried up, gaunt, jerked, mummified, shrivelled, shrunken, wilted, withered, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atrophieday atrofiado (aborted, atrophic, scrubby, stunted), obsoleto (antiquated, antique, behind the times, obsolete, old, outdated, passe), fora de uso (obsolete, out of use, passe), enfraquecido (abated, die away, emaciate, impaired, reduced), definhado (stunted). (various references) атрофированный (obsolete). (various references) atrofiran, zakržljao (scrubby, stunted, vestigial). (various references) rudimentario (elementary, inchoate, primitive, rudimentary). (various references) zayıflayıp kurumuş, yozlaşmış (bastardized, corrupt, degenerate, putrid), körelmiş (blunt, rusty), gıdasızlıktan zayıflamış, dumura uğramış (decayed, rudimental, rudimentary). (various references) teo, bị teo hao mòn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Atrophied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrospide, astrophied, atrophe, atrophed, atrophi, atrophia, atrophie, atrophine, Atropia, atrphied, atrypid, attrofied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: trophied. | |
-2 letters: adopter, airthed, diopter, dioptre, diptera, hardtop, opiated, parotid, partied, peridot, phorate, pirated, pithead, pothead, proteid, raphide, readopt, theroid. | |
-3 letters: adroit, airted, dearth, dehort, depart, deport, diaper, dither, dopier, dotier, editor, ephori, hairdo, haired, harped, hatred, heptad, heriot, iodate, ophite, opiate, orated, paired, pardie, parted, period, petard, pirate, pithed, podite, ported, pother. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: diaphoretic, orthopaedic. | |
+3 letters: diaphoretics, hydropathies, lithographed, orthopaedics, radiotherapy. | |
+4 letters: apostrophised, apostrophized, cardiopathies, hermaphrodite, moderatorship. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadine, dermatoglyphic, hermaphrodites, hermaphroditic, hydrotherapies, hydroxyapatite, moderatorships, orthopedically, radiotelegraph, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, radiotherapies, radiotherapist, rehospitalized. | |
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