Attrition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ATTRITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a wearing away
• the gradual reduction of a workforce by employees leaving and not being replaced rather than by redundancy
• wearing away by friction; abrasion
• (in scholastic theology) sorrow for sin, falling short of contrition.
• constant wearing down to weaken or destroy
• The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
• The state of being worn.
• Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
• erosion by friction
• the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
• sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
• a wearing down to weaken or destroy
• the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
• the process of reducing something's strength or effectiveness through sustained attack or pressure

Words related to ATTRITION

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Words that contain ATTRITION

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How to use ATTRITION in a sentence

• The warfare of attrition has never shown such excellent results as in the case of Bulgaria.
• But as much movement was necessary to ascend such a great height, some of the clay would become attached to its rough skin by attrition.
• They form a perpetual attrition, working silently and ceaselessly day and night, wearing away the distinctively religious conceptions of the community.
• With the attrition of time and the elements, it had worn away in spots, through which the brown adobe bricks showed, like the bones in a decaying corpse.
• Trench duty was exacting and exhausting from a physical point of view alone, but to this was added the continual attrition of numbers on account of shell and rifle fire.
• Lancashire men had not then been whetted by daily attrition with steam to their present keen and shrewd character, and the elder Livesey lost all he possessed.
• In those thirty years the original stock of evidence current and in circulation even underwent a process of attrition.
• While 1200 Negroes, training for leadership, were undergoing the terrific process of forced attrition, their nerves turned raw by army usage, East St.
• River sand is frequently used, but is not so good as pit sand on account of the particles being rubbed smooth by attrition.
• At any rate, they thoroughly believed in the policy of attrition, and in carrying it out they often wasted thousands of rounds in sniping every yard of our parapet.
• Traveler, newspaper correspondent, translator, ambassador, he was all these, and his varied exploits and attrition of the crowded world hindered the cadences of his poetry.
• A little stream meandered down and gurgled over rocks worn smooth by ages of attrition.
• The enamel, by its superior hardness, is less liable to attrition, and, standing above the rest, causes an uneven grinding surface.
• In the wild state sand and grit, entangled in the roots of plants, help in the work of attrition, and, according to Professor W.
• The marks left by the attrition of the surface give an approximate idea of the age of the animal.
• The war, we were told, was going to be a war of attrition.
• Under the attrition of the iron-bound wheels the water and clay were ground into mud, which was at first almost liquid.
• Doubtless she hoped to reduce the number of British fighting units by attrition.
• It was evident, that land so much exposed to the violence of extensive oceans must have undergone some very material changes, by the incessant attrition of their vast waves.
• Fragments of flint, basalt, and quartz, apparently not worn by attrition, abound in the adjacent soil.
• The bed of the river was flat, and consisted of small pebbles, not much worn by attrition, and mixed with sand.
• He was learning all about humanity by constant attrition with mankind.
• By the attrition of one hard body upon another, the moving stones and rocky shore, are mutually impaired.
• Marie had undertaken their education, but she could not give them the culture which comes from the attrition of thought, and from contact with the ideas of others.
• The attrition of centuries, and the hurry of the industrial period, have diminished this name in sound and dignity to Carkey, and finally to Corkey.
• In this collection of geniuses the attrition of mind on mind must have been of benefit to each.
• It was a band of chosen spirits, and the attrition engendered by these meetings must have been advantageous to each.

Similar words containing ATTRI without suffix tion

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