atrophy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.

   “Now that chatbots are going the way of Google—moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted—the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy. Teachers, especially, say they’re beginning to see the rot. The term for it is unlovely but not inapt: de-skilling.”

2. fiil To wither or waste away.

   “Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.”

3. fiil To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

   “Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion”