萎缩

wěi suō

HSK 3.0 Level 7 Verb Uncommon

Definitions

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to grow

Economic or muscle growth

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to decline

Economic decline or deterioration of faculties

to pull back

Physical shrinkage, as of muscles

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to wilt

Used for plants and abstract things losing vitality

Often paired with 肌肉 (muscle) or 经济 (economy) to describe decline.

萎缩 is primarily intransitive and cannot take an object; use 使...萎缩 to express causing atrophy.

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长期不运动会导致肌肉萎缩。

Long-term lack of exercise can lead to muscle atrophy.

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muscular dystrophy

to withdraw

to wither