Atrophy

1. n. A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
2. v. t. To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.