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Attrite vs Attrits - What's the difference?

attrite | attrits |

As verbs the difference between attrite and attrits

is that attrite is while attrits is (attrit).

As an adjective attrite

is regretful of one's wrongdoing merely due to fear of punishment (compare contrite).

attrite

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en-verb)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) attritus.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • regretful of one's wrongdoing merely due to fear of punishment (compare contrite)

    • Anagrams

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    attrits

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (attrit)

    • attrit

    English

    Verb

  • To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition
  • *{{quote-book, 1858, , Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic citation
    • , passage=
  • To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out
  • *{{quote-book, 1997, , Legal Tender citation
    • , passage= the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.}}
  • To be reduced in quantity through attrition
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Lynne Hansen, Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, chapter=Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism citation
    • , passage=The interference theory of second language loss holds that forgetting is actually interference between the attriting language and the language replacing it.}}
  • (military) To lose, or to kill troops by attrition due to sustained firepower
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, John Matsumura, Lightning Over Water: Sharpening America's Light Forces for Rapid Missions citation
    • , passage=The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact.}}

    Derived terms

    *attritee *attritor