atrophied

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether.

Most pythons have atrophied useless pelvises floating inside their abdomens, not connected to anything.

A lack of competitive elections meant that state parties atrophied.

Restoring the atrophied Israeli Zionist left is the only way to ensure movement on the peace process.

There is no reason why in the years to come hand and foot should not both be atrophied.

Plenty of good air there to fill lungs atrophied by long night hours in the sick atmosphere of the wards.

One external opening sufficed to carry off the entire secretion of the gland, and the other openings therefore atrophied.

But the first has already atrophied considerably, and may easily be recognized as the spiracle.

Eventually the old mouth and throat atrophied, and one pair of coalesced gill-slits came to serve as the sole mouth.