Definition for Atrophy:

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

Synonyms for Atrophy:

• n.

  •
  • fail,
  • languish.
  •atrophy (noun)
  • wasting,
  • withering.
  •degeneracy (noun)
  • devolution.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • retrogression,
  • corruption,
  • degeneration,
  • dilapidation.
  •emaciation (noun)
  • marasmus,
  • tabes.

• v.

  •deteriorate (verb)
  • slide,
  • downgrade,
  • ebb,
  • decline,
  • lapse,
  • regress,
  • revert,
  • degenerate,
  • moulder,
  • retrogress,
  • go downhill,
  • deteriorate,
  • collapse,
  • worsen,
  • slump,
  • tergiversate,
  • relapse,
  • fall apart,
  • wilt,
  • dilapidate,
  • fade,
  • putrefy,
  • sink,
  • slip.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • declination,
  • declension,
  • reduction.
  •
  • decadence.
  •
  • retrograde.
  •
  • descend.
  •gauntness
  • emaciation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • syndrome,
  • shrinking,
  • high blood pressure,
  • sign,
  • organic disease,
  • erosion,
  • PHYSICAL DETERIORATION,
  • rash,
  • lessen,
  • compaction,
  • sneezing,
  • skin eruption,
  • bleeding,
  • desolate,
  • anaemia,
  • neck,
  • disintegration,
  • shrunken,
  • cower,
  • dysentery,
  • lean,
  • helpless,
  • spasm,
  • cachexia,
  • diminution,
  • pathology,
  • colic,
  • die,
  • abscess,
  • aphid,
  • ailment,
  • Drying,
  • Puceron,
  • plant disease,
  • dwindle,
  • disability,
  • go to pot,
  • hereditary disease,
  • devastate,
  • respiratory disease,
  • wizened,
  • terminate,
  • Atrophies,
  • wastage,
  • vomiting,
  • break,
  • genetic disease,
  • abort,
  • condition,
  • shrivelled,
  • decrement,
  • drop,
  • upset stomach,
  • delicacy,
  • distemper,
  • defect,
  • invalidation,
  • hypotension,
  • morbus,
  • Symptomatology,
  • sore,
  • tumour,
  • consume,
  • dizziness,
  • Chills,
  • dropsy,
  • fever,
  • fibrillation,
  • affliction,
  • symptoms,
  • frail,
  • malady,
  • waste,
  • contraction,
  • asthma,
  • phthisis,
  • seizure,
  • droop,
  • ruin,
  • consumption,
  • signs,
  • affection,
  • emaciate,
  • gastrointestinal disease,
  • fading,
  • ravages of time,
  • icterus,
  • Urogenital Disease,
  • thin,
  • shrinkage,
  • necrosis,
  • fatigue,
  • disorder,
  • Parching,
  • infectious disease,
  • squander,
  • attenuation,
  • hypertension,
  • pruritus,
  • chill,
  • pine away,
  • lumbago,
  • eject,
  • flux,
  • reduce,
  • belittle,
  • tumor,
  • malaise,
  • ague,
  • ataxia,
  • vertigo,
  • sclerosis,
  • symptom,
  • prostration,
  • Shriveling,
  • cyanosis,
  • constipation,
  • shock,
  • Virus Disease,
  • asphyxiation,
  • vitiate,
  • wear and tear,
  • apnea,
  • infirmity,
  • paralysis,
  • dyspepsia,
  • Rockiness,
  • relax,
  • Searing,
  • indisposition,
  • wilting,
  • Acute Disease,
  • sickness,
  • defalcation,
  • rust,
  • ravage,
  • deficiency disease,
  • symptomology,
  • Muscular Disease,
  • abnormality,
  • functional disease,
  • ankylosis,
  • hydrops,
  • bacterial disease,
  • weaken,
  • corrosion,
  • diminish,
  • stunt,
  • hemorrhage,
  • pinch,
  • palsy,
  • feeble,
  • nausea,
  • wasting disease,
  • shrivel up,
  • shrivel,
  • insomnia,
  • jaundice,
  • undermine,
  • rheum,
  • shrink,
  • Tabefaction,
  • birth defect,
  • powerless,
  • allergy,
  • illness,
  • hourglass,
  • cardiovascular disease,
  • degenerative disease,
  • growth,
  • coughing,
  • inflammation,
  • Fainting,
  • impotent,
  • destruction,
  • expel,
  • neurological disease,
  • complication,
  • lessening,
  • decomposition,
  • Low Blood Pressure,
  • crumble,
  • abate,
  • itching,
  • cachexy,
  • indigestion,
  • dyspnea,
  • Sickishness,
  • thinning,
  • mean,
  • seediness,
  • Iatrogenic Disease,
  • cancel,
  • enervate,
  • endemic,
  • endocrine disease,
  • pip,
  • complaint,
  • epidemic disease,
  • disease,
  • congenital defect,
  • pathological condition,
  • deformity,
  • morbidity,
  • blast,
  • rot,
  • pain,
  • devolve,
  • occupational disease,
  • anemia,
  • plant louse,
  • blight,
  • weakening,
  • convulsion,
  • sere,
  • failing,
  • moldiness,
  • disintegrate,
  • backache,
  • handicap,
  • edema,
  • anoxia,
  • tachycardia,
  • Emaceration,
  • Chronic Disease,
  • Diarrhea,
  • decrease,
  • systole,
  • disorganization,
  • endemic disease,
  • attenuate.

Paraphrases for Atrophy:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wasting.

Antonyms for Atrophy:

• n.

  • wasting away, disintegration
    increase, betterment, ascent, improvement, rise, development.

• v.

  • Other antonyms:
    intensify, enhance, heighten, advance, march, ameliorate, improve, progress, enrich, meliorate, proceed, upgrade, better, fortify, develop.

Homophones for Atrophy:

• atropa, atrip, autotroph.

Hypernym for Atrophy:

• n.

  • state
    tabes, amyotrophia, amyotrophy, kraurosis.

Hyponym for Atrophy:

• n.

  • state
    symptom.

• v.

  • body
    wither, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up.