Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to attrit
Participle: attritted
Gerund: attritting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | attrit |
| you | attrit |
| he;she;it | attrits |
| we | attrit |
| you | attrit |
| they | attrit |
Perfect
| I | have attritted |
| you | have attritted |
| he;she;it | has attritted |
| we | have attritted |
| you | have attritted |
| they | have attritted |
Past
| I | attritted |
| you | attritted |
| he;she;it | attritted |
| we | attritted |
| you | attritted |
| they | attritted |
Pluperfect
| I | had attritted |
| you | had attritted |
| he;she;it | had attritted |
| we | had attritted |
| you | had attritted |
| they | had attritted |
Future
| I | will attrit |
| you | will attrit |
| he;she;it | will attrit |
| we | will attrit |
| you | will attrit |
| they | will attrit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have attritted |
| you | will have attritted |
| he;she;it | will have attritted |
| we | will have attritted |
| you | will have attritted |
| they | will have attritted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | attrit |
| you | attrit |
| he;she;it | attrit |
| we | attrit |
| you | attrit |
| they | attrit |
Perfect
| I | have attritted |
| you | have attritted |
| he;she;it | have attritted |
| we | have attritted |
| you | have attritted |
| they | have attritted |
Imperfect
| I | attritted |
| you | attritted |
| he;she;it | attritted |
| we | attritted |
| you | attritted |
| they | attritted |
Pluperfect
| I | had attritted |
| you | had attritted |
| he;she;it | had attritted |
| we | had attritted |
| you | had attritted |
| they | had attritted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would attrit |
| you | would attrit |
| he;she;it | would attrit |
| we | would attrit |
| you | would attrit |
| they | would attrit |
Perfect
| I | would have attritted |
| you | would have attritted |
| he;she;it | would have attritted |
| we | would have attritted |
| you | would have attritted |
| they | would have attritted |
Imperative
| you | attrit |
| we | Let's attrit |
| you | attrit |
Verbs conjugated like 'attrit'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'attrit'
attrist,
attrite,
astrict,
atrist,
attain,
attaint,
attest,
attract,
attrap,
attuite,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin attrītus, past participle of atterō. Said by multiple dictionaries to be a back-formation from attrition, but it is not a recent one, being centuries old.
Sample Sentences
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[…] pebbles of vast size, or blocks of stone, attrited by water to smoothness, conjoined by a cement of mud. [1858, James Prinsep, Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, page 111:]
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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. [1997, Lisa Scottoline, Legal Tender, →ISBN, page 77:]
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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. [2001, Lynne Hansen, “Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism”, in Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, →ISBN, page 359:]
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The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact. [2001, John Matsumura, Lightning Over Water: Sharpening America's Light Forces for Rapid Missions, →ISBN, page 124:]