单词 | attrited |
释义 | attritedadj. Subjected to attrition, esp. worn down by continued friction or pressure. Also figurative. Cf. earlier attrite adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn attrite?a1475 worn1508 fretted1545 battered1593 trite1601 obsolete1611 obtrite1656 attrited1691 eroded1741 worn-down1814 1691 T. Heyrick Misc. Poems 89 If these their Subtlety to Motion owe, Fragments, that from attrited Matter grow, How happ's it, Time hath not worn all things so. 1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iii. 222 The Particulars of the Second Element were more attrited, or worn, and receding equally from their Centers. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xlii. 201 So glazed, so contrited and attrited was it with fingers and with thumbs in all its parts. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 47 The stream..Rolling and bubbling through attrited sand. 1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice I. xiv. 206 The traveller..gets his individuality toned down, gets a softened and attrited character. 1905 A. P. Coleman Sudbury Nickel Field in Rep. Bureau Mines (Toronto) 14 52 The coarse flucan or attrited matter which separates the ore from the wall. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 393 He could feel the jangly wind on his teeth; it knew where the bad fillings were, the sites of attrited enamel. 2008 S. A. Montrul Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (2009) iii. 77 What happens both in attrited L1 grammars and in incomplete L2 endstate grammars..is that overt pronouns lose the interpretable feature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1691 |
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