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Definition of Attriting
1. attrite [v] - See also: attrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attriting
Literary usage of Attriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War by Richard G. Davis (1998)
"Air power, attriting more than sixty percent of Iraq's tanks, eliminated the need
for a punishing force-on-force battle. When compared with earlier ..."
2. Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies by Samuel Laing (1852)
"... in collision with the attriting stones, — but the whole masses have been in
motion and rolled about. They are generally of the size of a large chest, ..."
3. History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied on the Lower Rhine by Samuel Hibbert (1832)
"... or indeed of any later formation ; in which case, owing to the attriting action
of torrents continued in such fissures during an incalculable period of ..."
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