Term: atrophy: any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
Candidate hypernym: weakening: becoming weaker → 1
Candidate hypernym: air cushion: the trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: keratoacanthoma: skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar → 0
Candidate hypernym: card: one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes → 0
Candidate hypernym: demand: the act of demanding → 0
Candidate hypernym: vestrywoman: a woman who is a member of a church vestry → 0
Candidate hypernym: hibernation: cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: anomalops: fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico → 0
Candidate hypernym: yam: edible tuber of any of several yams → 0
Candidate hypernym: variola virus: the virus that causes smallpox in humans; can be used as a bioweapon → 0
Candidate hypernym: joint resolution: a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto) → 0