Synonyms for attrition
əˈtrɪʃ ənat·tri·tion

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1. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

2. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

3. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

4. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

5. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

6. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

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1. attrition

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse, self-reproach

   Antonyms:
   impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation, relentlessness

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1. abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detritionnoun

   erosion by friction

   Synonyms:
   excoriation, corrasion, contriteness, rubbing, detrition, contrition, scratch, friction, abrasion, scrape, grinding

2. grinding, abrasion, attrition, detritionnoun

   the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

   Synonyms:
   excoriation, corrasion, contriteness, rubbing, detrition, contrition, scratch, friction, abrasion, scrape, grinding

3. attrition, contrition, contritenessnoun

   sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

4. attritionnoun

   a wearing down to weaken or destroy

   "a war of attrition"

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

5. attritionnoun

   the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

Matched Categories

1. • Decrease
   • Friction
   • Sorrow

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1. attritionnoun

   Synonyms:
   abrasion, friction, rubbing

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1. List of paraphrases for "attrition":

   wear, depuration, erosion

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1. Nicole Schwegman:

   The Department does not manipulate military recruiting data, as part of achieving their End-strength objectives, the Services set their own recruitment goals and will make adjustment to those goals based upon Service retention rates, separation rates, and attrition.

2. Phil Wagner:

   Attrition and costs associated with non-deployable warfighters are at an all-time high. With uncertainty and potential budget cuts possible, the DoD can no longer afford to ignore the costs of our non-deployable assets, congress has recognized this and has taken an important step to get ahead of it.

3. Noah Bonsey:

   It's really indicative of some huge problems the regime has, what we're seeing now is the best evidence yet of a trend we've already known about: the regime's attrition rate is quite high and it can't replace the soldiers and militiamen that it loses with equally effective Syrian manpower.

4. Hassan Abu Hanieh:

   This kind of war has turned into a strategy for the group, at this stage they are using it as a war of attrition, like Baghdadi said in his latest speech.

5. Another Chicago alderman:

   We've been saying this was coming for the last five or six years that I've been in office, the rate of attrition, we are not keeping up with it. They're not actively going out looking for more police officers to take this job. You actually have city council members pushing to defund the police department, take more money away from them, allocate it to other departments, we're pushing a boulder up the hill right now. And if we don't get all on the same team and we're not all working in the same direction, we're going to lose our city as quick as we can believe it.