What is "atrophying"

Usage examples of "atrophying".

Only a part of him monitored the outside world, through his rapidly atrophying physical senses, but in the cool, thunderous dark of the cyberworld, where he lived with his billion ghosts, all was well.

But the decay had reached this world first, in the form of petty kingdoms broken loose from the atrophying higher order, whose shortsighted freebooters wanted imperfect immortality for themselves now, if perfect immortality wasn't available.

Her eyes are weakening, her stomach is turning sour, her whole body is atrophying from lack of exercise.

The soothsayer was a similar deformed being with the same huge, lopsided potato head and tiny atrophying body.

That was not why God caused us to exist, and it did us very little good except to breed a kind of local colony that was in danger of straying or atrophying.

I could feel myself wasting away, stomach shrinking, tongue swelling, muscles atrophying, and I no longer cared.