Synonyms of the word

atrophy

• n. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
• v. (intransitive) To wither or waste away.
• v. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

shrivel

• v. (intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (transitive) To draw into wrinkles.

symptom

• n. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease…
• n. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else,…

wasting

• adj. Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
• v. present participle of waste.
• n. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
• n. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

weakening

• v. present participle of weaken.
• n. An instance or process of loss of strength.
• n. (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses…

wither

• adv. (obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
• v. (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
• v. (transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
• v. (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
• v. (transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.

withering

• adj. Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.
• adj. Diminishing rapidly.
• adj. Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
• v. present participle of wither.
• n. The process by which something withers.