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The act of rubbing together
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attrition
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES war of attrition COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN rate ▪ That compares with an attrition rate of just over a quarter during Ronald Reagan's presidency. ▪ It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be ...
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Attrition is an information security -related website, updated at least weekly by an all-volunteer staff. Until 21 May 2001, Attrition maintained the largest mirror of defaced (or cracked ) websites available on the World Wide Web. The defacement mirror ...
WordNet
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n. erosion by friction [syn: abrasion , corrasion , detrition ] the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding , abrasion , detrition ] sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: contrition , contriteness ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attrition \At*tri"tion\, n. [L. attritio: cf. F. attrition.] The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. --Arbuthnot. The state of being ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "abrasion, a scraping," from Latin attritionem (nominative attritio ), literally "a rubbing against," noun of action from past participle stem of atterere "to wear, rub away," figuratively "to destroy, waste," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + terere "to ...
Usage examples of attrition.
She was beautiful in a neutral way, emitting no light, defining herself in terms of attrition, a skinny thing, near blond, far beyond recall from the hard-edged rhythms of her Me, Southwestern woman, hard to remember and forget.
Wave upon wave of attackers would be sent against the camp until sheer attrition won the day.
Time and attrition would destroy them as surely as an attack by overwhelming odds.
There is a milder degree than pure shen, Shuven, and a more intense degree than Shenshid, Shidoni, which refers literally to death by attrition and in some societies at various times in history was the one word never spoken aloud.
Digen had felt just this so often at the brink of attrition, at the gathering of a fourth primary abort, at the lip of sudden death.
The selyn flows in the little nerve fibers were shutting down in attrition, and Digen, as he finished, could barely see them to avoid hitting them with the needle.
Or I could be close to death by attrition and not experience half the agony of the ordinary Sime in disjunction.
If he can show that I died of attrition when my so-called Companion was taken by an ordinary Sime in the kill, the entire Tecton will come under official investigation.
Rimon almost died of attrition before finally, on the fourth try, he completed the kill of a Gen presented to him.
Rimon lifted her, trying for a grip to snap her neck, she twisted and instinctively grasped at his arms as rapid attrition drained her life.
On the brink of attrition, Vee uttered a choked cry, convulsed by the worst breakout contractions Rimon had ever seen.
Her death may have been due to this very condition, for she died of attrition in childbirth.
McQueen had already proved herself capable of playing the attrition game when that was her only option.
This one is going to turn into a slugfest with heavy attrition on both sides.
The high usufferingfering in the war had caught attrition rates the Israelis were s up with Moshe Levy and his crew.