attritv.

Brit.

/əˈtrɪt/, U.S.

/əˈtrɪt/

Inflections: Present participle attriting, attritting; past tense and past participle attrited, attritted;

Forms:

α. 1600s– attrite.

β. 1900s– attrit.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin attrīt-, atterere.

Etymology: < classical Latin attrīt-, past participial stem of atterere to rub (against), to chafe, to wear away, wear down, to diminish, to waste (time), to impair the strength or vigour of, weaken ( < at- at- prefix³ + terere to rub: see trite adj.), after attrite adj., and (in β. forms) attrition n.

1. transitive. To wear down or erode, esp. by friction; to grind or break into fragments; to rub. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

a1648 E. Gurnay Toward Vindic. Second Commandm. (1661) 62 For as our table-books, the more deeply and hardly they be written upon, the sooner they are attrited and worn away.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xxiv. 193 No great bodies have any tast, unless they be first attrited and diminisht by the teeth.

1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 14 An empty glass tube attrited by Woollen Cloath emits Light.

1834 W. H. Thomas Surg. & Descriptive Anat. 201 If there be a cough, giving pain by attriting the fractured ends of the bone together, use opiate mixtures.

1875 A. Mangin Earth & its Treasures i. xxv. 216 A young gentleman of Bruges.., by rubbing a couple of diamonds together, observed that they attrited and polished their surfaces reciprocally.

1964 Geografiska Annaler 46 149/2 If the rock is of a kind which is fairly easily attrited, the pieces must be so large that they are little moved.

1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 32 He isn't really old, just worn and maimed and attrited by famishment and by despair.

2001 C. W. Williford & R. M. Bricka in I. K. Iskander Environmental Restoration Metals-contaminated Soils vii. 149 Attriting a heavy metal-contaminated soil can..separate the soil particle from the metal surface.

2. transitive. Military (chiefly U.S.). To weaken, wear down, or reduce (an enemy force) by means of sustained and unrelenting assault. Cf. attrition n. 3d.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > punish enemy

chastisec1515

slate1854

attrit1915

1915 Daily Mail 27 Oct. 4/3 Our Ministers talk of ending this war by ‘attrition’. Who is being ‘attrited’ by these slovenly methods?

1917 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 June 6/4 The enemy's moral and mental as well as his material resources must be weakened and attrited.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 60/1 Attrite,..to reduce in size by attrition.

1969 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 40/1 Wear the Cong down, and he'll quit... Attrit him.

1995 Times 2 Sept. 15/2 American officers paraded on television explaining how the Serbs were being ‘attrited’.

2004 9/11 Comm. Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks U.S.) vi. 182 More money should go to the CIA to accelerate its efforts to ‘seriously attrit’ al Qaeda.

3. Chiefly North American.

a. transitive. To discharge (an employee who is no longer needed); (now usually) to decide not to fill (a vacant position) or not to replace (an employee who leaves) in order to reduce the size of a workforce. Also: to reduce (a group, esp. a workforce) in size or number, esp. by not replacing those who leave. Cf. attrition n. 3e.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > make redundant

retrench1891

release1918

attrit1953

outplace1970

shed1975

excess1976

1953 Full Comm. Hearings on H.R. 2332 (U.S. House Comm. Armed Services) 152 Were this to continue over a period of years you would have Regular officers now serving in a temporary grade, but who, when their permanent grade catches up with them and they serve in that grade for a sufficient length of time, must be promoted or attrited.

1968 Ann. Rep. Postmaster Gen. (U.S. Post Office Dept.) vii, 99 The 66-man personnel complement of the Chicago Supply Center was attrited by retirements..and transfers to postal activities in the Chicago area.

1985 Railway Age July 20/2 We have attrited over 30 positions.

1986 Washington Post 27 June c8 They will not be able to ‘attrit’ people fast enough.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 Feb. c5/1 He is proposing to attrit the state workforce by only ‘up to’ 1 percent.

b. intransitive. To leave a job, position, etc.; to withdraw from a course of study or training; (more generally) to drop out.

ΚΠ

1965 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 23 Nov. 7/1 Another 5,000 men simply ‘attrited’. That's the new word amongst the sophisticates for workers who are given the right to stay on the job as long as they want until they decide to work elsewhere, or retire, or die.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Aug. (Nexis) It would be logical to expect that about 74 per cent of those who attrit will be in the regions.

1989 J. H. Stiehm Arms & Enlisted Woman Notes 300 Women who attrited had the highest AFQT scores..and men who attrited the lowest.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Apr. a24/3 Every day I'm trying to see who's attriting from the program.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	attrit
释义	attritv. Brit. /əˈtrɪt/, U.S. /əˈtrɪt/ Inflections: Present participle attriting, attritting; past tense and past participle attrited, attritted; Forms: α. 1600s– attrite. β. 1900s– attrit. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin attrīt-, atterere. Etymology: < classical Latin attrīt-, past participial stem of atterere to rub (against), to chafe, to wear away, wear down, to diminish, to waste (time), to impair the strength or vigour of, weaken ( < at- at- prefix³ + terere to rub: see trite adj.), after attrite adj., and (in β. forms) attrition n. 1. transitive. To wear down or erode, esp. by friction; to grind or break into fragments; to rub. Also figurative. ΚΠ a1648 E. Gurnay Toward Vindic. Second Commandm. (1661) 62 For as our table-books, the more deeply and hardly they be written upon, the sooner they are attrited and worn away. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xxiv. 193 No great bodies have any tast, unless they be first attrited and diminisht by the teeth. 1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 14 An empty glass tube attrited by Woollen Cloath emits Light. 1834 W. H. Thomas Surg. & Descriptive Anat. 201 If there be a cough, giving pain by attriting the fractured ends of the bone together, use opiate mixtures. 1875 A. Mangin Earth & its Treasures i. xxv. 216 A young gentleman of Bruges.., by rubbing a couple of diamonds together, observed that they attrited and polished their surfaces reciprocally. 1964 Geografiska Annaler 46 149/2 If the rock is of a kind which is fairly easily attrited, the pieces must be so large that they are little moved. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 32 He isn't really old, just worn and maimed and attrited by famishment and by despair. 2001 C. W. Williford & R. M. Bricka in I. K. Iskander Environmental Restoration Metals-contaminated Soils vii. 149 Attriting a heavy metal-contaminated soil can..separate the soil particle from the metal surface. 2. transitive. Military (chiefly U.S.). To weaken, wear down, or reduce (an enemy force) by means of sustained and unrelenting assault. Cf. attrition n. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > punish enemy chastisec1515 slate1854 attrit1915 1915 Daily Mail 27 Oct. 4/3 Our Ministers talk of ending this war by ‘attrition’. Who is being ‘attrited’ by these slovenly methods? 1917 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 June 6/4 The enemy's moral and mental as well as his material resources must be weakened and attrited. 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 60/1 Attrite,..to reduce in size by attrition. 1969 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 40/1 Wear the Cong down, and he'll quit... Attrit him. 1995 Times 2 Sept. 15/2 American officers paraded on television explaining how the Serbs were being ‘attrited’. 2004 9/11 Comm. Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks U.S.) vi. 182 More money should go to the CIA to accelerate its efforts to ‘seriously attrit’ al Qaeda. 3. Chiefly North American. a. transitive. To discharge (an employee who is no longer needed); (now usually) to decide not to fill (a vacant position) or not to replace (an employee who leaves) in order to reduce the size of a workforce. Also: to reduce (a group, esp. a workforce) in size or number, esp. by not replacing those who leave. Cf. attrition n. 3e. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > make redundant retrench1891 release1918 attrit1953 outplace1970 shed1975 excess1976 1953 Full Comm. Hearings on H.R. 2332 (U.S. House Comm. Armed Services) 152 Were this to continue over a period of years you would have Regular officers now serving in a temporary grade, but who, when their permanent grade catches up with them and they serve in that grade for a sufficient length of time, must be promoted or attrited. 1968 Ann. Rep. Postmaster Gen. (U.S. Post Office Dept.) vii, 99 The 66-man personnel complement of the Chicago Supply Center was attrited by retirements..and transfers to postal activities in the Chicago area. 1985 Railway Age July 20/2 We have attrited over 30 positions. 1986 Washington Post 27 June c8 They will not be able to ‘attrit’ people fast enough. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 Feb. c5/1 He is proposing to attrit the state workforce by only ‘up to’ 1 percent. b. intransitive. To leave a job, position, etc.; to withdraw from a course of study or training; (more generally) to drop out. ΚΠ 1965 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 23 Nov. 7/1 Another 5,000 men simply ‘attrited’. That's the new word amongst the sophisticates for workers who are given the right to stay on the job as long as they want until they decide to work elsewhere, or retire, or die. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Aug. (Nexis) It would be logical to expect that about 74 per cent of those who attrit will be in the regions. 1989 J. H. Stiehm Arms & Enlisted Woman Notes 300 Women who attrited had the highest AFQT scores..and men who attrited the lowest. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Apr. a24/3 Every day I'm trying to see who's attriting from the program. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.a1648
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