[…] pebbles of vast size, or blocks of stone, attrited by water to smoothness, conjoined by a cement of mud.
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Attrit
//əˈtɹɪt//
Synonyms for "attrit" (3 found)
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Portuguese
1 entries- desgastar verb (wear down through attrition)
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the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.
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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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The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact.
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