hypertrophy

1. 1.

   undergo hypertrophy

   “muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids”

   Broadergrow

Other forms of hypertrophy

plural

hypertrophies·

past tense or participle

hypertrophied

present participle

hypertrophying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypertrophy

What does hypertrophy mean?

hypertrophy means "abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hypertrophy?

hypertrophy has 4 syllables: hy-per-tro-phy. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪpɚˌtɹoʊfi/.

Is hypertrophy a common word?

hypertrophy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hypertrophy?

1 word rhymes with hypertrophy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.