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Dictionary of Difficult Words - attrition

attrition

n. wearing away; rubbing or scraping; Theology, incomplete repentance due to fear of punishment. war of attrition, campaign of wearing down enemy's morale and resistance. attritive, a. causing attrition. attritional, pertaining to, caused by attrition. attritus, pulverized matter.

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