Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to attrition
Participle: attritioned
Gerund: attritioning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | attrition |
| you | attrition |
| he;she;it | attritions |
| we | attrition |
| you | attrition |
| they | attrition |
Perfect
| I | have attritioned |
| you | have attritioned |
| he;she;it | has attritioned |
| we | have attritioned |
| you | have attritioned |
| they | have attritioned |
Past
| I | attritioned |
| you | attritioned |
| he;she;it | attritioned |
| we | attritioned |
| you | attritioned |
| they | attritioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had attritioned |
| you | had attritioned |
| he;she;it | had attritioned |
| we | had attritioned |
| you | had attritioned |
| they | had attritioned |
Future
| I | will attrition |
| you | will attrition |
| he;she;it | will attrition |
| we | will attrition |
| you | will attrition |
| they | will attrition |
Future Perfect
| I | will have attritioned |
| you | will have attritioned |
| he;she;it | will have attritioned |
| we | will have attritioned |
| you | will have attritioned |
| they | will have attritioned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | attrition |
| you | attrition |
| he;she;it | attrition |
| we | attrition |
| you | attrition |
| they | attrition |
Perfect
| I | have attritioned |
| you | have attritioned |
| he;she;it | have attritioned |
| we | have attritioned |
| you | have attritioned |
| they | have attritioned |
Imperfect
| I | attritioned |
| you | attritioned |
| he;she;it | attritioned |
| we | attritioned |
| you | attritioned |
| they | attritioned |
Pluperfect
| I | had attritioned |
| you | had attritioned |
| he;she;it | had attritioned |
| we | had attritioned |
| you | had attritioned |
| they | had attritioned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would attrition |
| you | would attrition |
| he;she;it | would attrition |
| we | would attrition |
| you | would attrition |
| they | would attrition |
Perfect
| I | would have attritioned |
| you | would have attritioned |
| he;she;it | would have attritioned |
| we | would have attritioned |
| you | would have attritioned |
| they | would have attritioned |
Imperative
| you | attrition |
| we | Let's attrition |
| you | attrition |
Verbs conjugated like 'attrition'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'attrition'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
15th century, from Middle English attricion, attricioun, from Middle French attricion, attrition and its etymon, Latin attrītiō (“a rubbing against”), from the verb attrītus, past participle of atterō (“to wear”), from ad- (“to, towards”) + terō (“to rub”). By surface analysis, attrit + -ion. See: Latin '
attrītiō'.
Sample Sentences
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attritioned teeth; attritioned rock
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[…] He took her in his arms
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And kissed her long and wetly,
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Till, attritioned by her charms,
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His will collapsed completely. [1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, Book 9, p. 189:]
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[…] but the heart of the health services in New York will have to attrition out some 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. [1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 186:]
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[…] expenses can be cut, by attritioning faculty vacancies […] [1989, Herbert S. White, “The Future of Library and Information Science Education”, in Librarians and the Awakening from Innocence,, Boston: G.K. Hall, page 86:]
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The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school.