This week’s theme
Words that aren’t what they appear to be

This week’s words
sadiron
adoral
lust-house
bodkin
atrophy

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Next week’s theme
Words borrowed from German

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(A-truh-fee)

MEANING:

noun: A wasting away or decline, due to disease, injury, lack of use, etc.
verb tr., intr.: To wither or cause to waste away.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia, from a- (without) + trophe (food). Earliest documented use: 1620.

USAGE:

“Here, I’ve been more or less a couch potato -- and my body is telling me to get moving before everything atrophies.”
Irene Hannon; Hope Harbor; Revell; 2015.

See more usage examples of atrophy in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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