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atrophy

verbCommon GRE wordMore A words

to waste away or decline from disuse

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Atrophy in a sentence

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Without practice, even hard-won skills will atrophy over time.

Synonyms
witherdegeneratedeteriorate
Antonyms
growflourishdevelop

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Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.

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Atrophy (verb) means to waste away or decline from disuse
Here is atrophy used in an example sentence: "Without practice, even hard-won skills will atrophy over time."
Common synonyms for atrophy include wither, degenerate, deteriorate.
Antonyms of atrophy include grow, flourish, develop.
Atrophy is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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