Usually means: Deterioration or wasting away physically.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word atrophying:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. atrophying: Merriam-Webster
  2. atrophying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. atrophying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. atrophying: Vocabulary.com
  5. atrophying: Wordnik
  6. atrophying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. atrophying: Wiktionary
  8. atrophying: Dictionary.com
  9. atrophying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. atrophying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. atrophying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. atrophying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. atrophying: Medical dictionary

(Note: See atrophy as well.)

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noun:  The process by which something atrophies.


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