attrition
noun
a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength.
attritive
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a word derived from
attrition.
Example Sentences
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The appearance was such as to impart no inadequate idea of the vast attritive power of ocean in wearing down the land.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
