to attrite

Examples

• All

• The continuous pressure of the opposing team began to attrite our players' stamina throughout the match.

• Although this symbol was used as domestic propaganda, it reflected the similarity between modern Iraqi and early Muslim strategies: hold defensible terrain, attrite the enemy, launch limited-objective counterattacks.

  Academic text (1999)

• Tor-Egil Haakestad found that younger and white service members were more likely than others to attrite.

  Academic text (1991)

• The percentage in the 1988 to 1989 panel who attrited was 25.2 percent.

  Academic text (1991)

• The Seljuks avoid close combat and fall back, relying on their horse archers to attrite the Byzantine forces.

  Academic text (1999)

• The Parthians, at Carrhae, attrited the Roman units with arrow barrages to the extent that they lost cohesion.

  Academic text (1999)

• In the harsh environment, the harsh winters would attrite the resources available to the community, making survival challenging.

• Over time, the company's staff began to attrite due to the increasing demands of their workload and insufficient support.

Synonyms

D

to deplete

vsto attrite

13 6.3

To use up almost all of something so little is left

reduces strength or numbers gradually over time instead of exhausting resources

E

to emasculate

vsto attrite

10 8.8

To make something weaker or less effective

weakens slowly over time by wearing down strength or numbers

A

to attrit

vsto attrite

• Jargon

1 9.9

To make people or forces fewer and weaker by slow, steady pressure

is the same in meaning but spelled with a final e

Antonyms

A

to augment

52 5.3

To make something bigger by adding more to it

R

to replenish

43 4.3

Fill something again after it has been used up

How Reduced

to annihilate

• NSFW

63 7.5

to decimate

58 7.5

to deplete

13 6.3

to attrite

• Jargon

1 9.9

to weaken

305 2.8

to diminish

201 3.7

Surface Forms

Etymology