#99 atrophy

atrophy- a wasting away of an organ or part, or a failure to grow to normal size as the result of disease, faulty nutrition; any degeneration or diminution, especially through lack of use

- C17 from Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophos- ill fed

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ~ Martha Gellhorn

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