Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving attrition or wearing away by attrition: as, “subjected to some further attritive process,”
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- adjective Causing
attrition .
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Examples
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Attrition does give attritive /əˈtraɪtɪv/ but OED notes this as a rare word.
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The consulting detective was also pleased with the discussion; his eyes glinted like the sparks of attritive flint; and though his sips were dainty, as befitted a gentleman savoring the fruit of Bacchus, the sips were frequent and exuberant.
An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979
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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.
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The projecting edge of some fossil-charged bed had been struck, mayhap, by an iceberg, and dashed into ruins, just as the subsiding land had brought the spot within reach of the attritive ice; and the broken heap thus detached had been shortly afterwards covered up, without mixture of any other deposit, by the red boulder-clay.
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The reader, by passing half a bushel of the common shells of our shores through a barley-mill, as a preliminary operation in the process, and by next subjecting the broken fragments thus obtained to the attritive influence of the waves on some storm-beaten beach for a twelvemonth or two, as a finishing operation, may produce, when he pleases, exactly such a water-worn shelly debris as mottles the blue boulder-clays of Caithness.
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you get the feeling that their idea of fighting inst like the idiot west whose jus belum puts every battle into an attritive one?
Obama’s new policy on nukes: I guess he wants to earn that Nobel ex post facto 2010
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a portion of the previously-crushed materials seems to have been subjected to some further attritive process, like that through which, in the mill, the broken grain is ground down into meal or flour.
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