Meaning of ATTRITION
| Pronunciation: | | u'trishun
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- [n] a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- [n] sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
- [n] the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- [n] erosion by friction
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ATTRITION is a 9 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | abrasion, abrasion, contriteness, contrition, corrasion, detrition, detrition, grinding |
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| | See Also: | | decrease, detrition, drop-off, eating away, eroding, erosion, friction, friction, lessening, regret, rubbing, rubbing, ruefulness, sorrow, wearing, wearing away | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \At*tri"tion\, n. [L. attritio: cf. F. attrition.]
1. 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.
2. The state of being worn. --Johnson.
3. (Theol.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of
punishment or feelings of shame. See {Contrition}.
--Wallis.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatement, ablation, abrasion, abrasive, absorption, apologies, assimilation, atomization, attenuation, ayenbite of inwit, beating, bitterness, blunting, brecciation, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing, comminution, consumption, contriteness, contrition, corrosion, crumbling, crushing, curtailment, cut, cutting, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, derogation, detraction, detrition, devitalization, digestion, dilution, diminution, dip, disintegration, disparagement, dissipation, dissolution, drain, dressing, dulling, eating up, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, erasure, erosion, evisceration, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fatigue, filing, finishing, fragmentation, fretting, galling, granulation, granulization, grating, grazing, grief, grinding, impairment, impoverishment, inanition, ingestion, languishment, lessening, levigation, limation, loss, mashing, mitigation, penance, penitently, polishing, pounding, powdering, rasping, reduction, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regretting, relaxation, remission, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repentance, repining, retraction, retrenchment, rubbing away, rue, ruth, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, shining, shortening, shredding, shrinkage, slackening, smashing, smoothing, softening, sorriness, sorrow, spending, squandering, thinning, trituration, truncation, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, weakening, wear, wear and tear, wearing away, wearing down, wistfulness |
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