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Definitions
To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition.
Word origin
From Latin attrītus, past participle of atterō. Said by multiple dictionaries to be a back-formation from attrition, but it is not a recent one, being centuries old.
Used in a sentence
“[…] pebbles of vast size, or blocks of stone, attrited by water to smoothness, conjoined by a cement of mud.”
“the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.”
“The interference theory of second language loss holds that forgetting is actually interference between the attriting language and the language replacing it.”
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