ppl. a.; also 6 atrofied. [f. ATROPHY + -ED.] Affected with atrophy; starved, wasted, emaciated. Also fig.
1597. Lowe, Art Chyrurg. (1634), 59. The bodie … becommeth atrofied and leane.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 79/2. The muscles … for want of use are more or less wasted and atrophied.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., VI. 533. The people, weary of atrophied institutions, yearn for fuller knowledge of the rules of right.
