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Attritive

//əˈtɹaɪtɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing attrition.

    "1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302, […] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,"

Etymology

From attrit + -ive. From attrition.

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