English-Spanish translations for atrophy

• atrofia
• atrofiar
  Las sociedades que han intentado ser excluyentes y mantener fuera a todos los demás han tenido tendencia a estancarse y atrofiarse. Those societies that have tried to be exclusive and to keep out everybody else have tended to stagnate and atrophy.
  Sin ellas, la esencia de Europa se atrofiaría aún más de lo que aparentemente sucede ahora de forma paulatina. Without them, Europe’s soul would atrophy even more than it is apparently slowly doing now.
• atrofiarse
  Las sociedades que han intentado ser excluyentes y mantener fuera a todos los demás han tenido tendencia a estancarse y atrofiarse. Those societies that have tried to be exclusive and to keep out everybody else have tended to stagnate and atrophy.

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