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attrition

English

  1. 🔊 the act of rubbing together
  2. 🔊 a wearing down to weaken or destroy
    “a war of attrition”
  3. 🔊 sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  4. 🔊 erosion by friction
  5. 🔊 the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

Spanish

  1. 🔊 atrición attrition
  2. 🔊 desgaste attrition, erosion, abrasion, weathering

Similar words

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