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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His muscles had atrophied after the surgery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with a major insurance company.
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In the end, in the final few days, the Labour campaign atrophied.
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Indeed, in most we find it's atrophied.
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Something in her that had, at first, revolted in anger and frustration at her own helplessness, now shrivelled and atrophied.
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The muscles in her eyes have not atrophied.
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The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them.
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What had begun with good will was atrophying for the want of language to nourish it.
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Whatever character or vision he might have had atrophied along the way.