English-French translations for atrophy

• atrophie
  Les sociétés qui ont voulu être trop exclusives et rester à l'écart des autres ont eu tendance à stagner et à s'atrophier. Those societies that have tried to be exclusive and to keep out everybody else have tended to stagnate and atrophy.
  Sans elles, l’âme de l’Europe s’atrophierait encore davantage. Without them, Europe’s soul would atrophy even more than it is apparently slowly doing now.
• atrophier
  Les sociétés qui ont voulu être trop exclusives et rester à l'écart des autres ont eu tendance à stagner et à s'atrophier. Those societies that have tried to be exclusive and to keep out everybody else have tended to stagnate and atrophy.
  Sans elles, l’âme de l’Europe s’atrophierait encore davantage. Without them, Europe’s soul would atrophy even more than it is apparently slowly doing now.

Definition of atrophy

• A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
• To wither or waste away.

Related words

• atrophic
• atrophied
• iatrophobia
• matrophobia
• iatrophobic
• iatrophobe
• atrophic rhinitis
• muscular atrophy
• porcine atrophic rhinitis