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/ˈæt.ɹə.fi/ · noun
(pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use..
Now that chatbots are going the way of Google—moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted—the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy. Teachers, especially, say they’re beginning to see the rot. The term for it is unlovely but not inapt: de-skilling.
Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.
The M10 highway looks normal enough at the southern limits of St. Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy. For the next 430 miles the surface of the highway, while paved, varies from corduroy to jaw-rattling patchwork.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
Use atrophy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Atrophy means (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use..
Common synonyms include withering, wasting, wasting away.
Possible antonyms include hypertrophy, strengthen.
Now that chatbots are going the way of Google—moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted—the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy. Teachers, especially, say they’re beginning to see the rot. The term for it is unlovely but not inapt: de-skilling.
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