| 单词 | war of attrition |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar of attrition war of attrition n. a prolonged war characterized by sustained and unrelenting action designed to weaken the enemy to the point of collapse, rather than by decisive battles; (also in extended use) a prolonged and wearying contest, dispute, or feud. ΚΠ 1890War of attrition [see sense 3d]. 1914 Sphere 21 Nov. 181/1 This is a war of attrition, in which each side tries to wear down the other. 1915 Times 26 Jan. 10/6 Wilde was wonderfully quick and skilful... The one place from which he was usually conducting his almost hopeless campaign was the ropes... It was to be a ‘war of attrition,’ but this was the language of hope rather than belief. 1927 W. S. Churchill World Crisis III. i. ii. 45 The only method of waging war on the Western Front was by wearing down the enemy by ‘killing Germans in a war of attrition’. 1970 D. Barthelme City Life iii Conducting vigorous wars of attrition against our wives. 2003 Independent 31 July (Review section) 8 Recently,..I overheard the features team talking about some war of attrition between them and the art department. 2010 S. Junger War ii. v. 133 Since the Army had already admitted that this was not a war of attrition, using enemy casualties as a definition of success struck me as a tricky business. < as lemmas |
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