Definition of attrit in English:
attrit
verbattrits, attriting, attrited əˈtrɪtəˈtrit
[with object]US informal Wear down (an opponent or enemy) by sustained action.
his defense was designed to attrit us
Example sentencesExamples
- That's very subjective but I believe that air power today will attrit a division at about 8 per cent per day.
- These divisions were placed in the Bloody Lane because they had been heavily attrited during the engagements at South Mountain.
- Under some rare and fortunate circumstances, you can attrit the enemy without actually killing him.
- The current operational tempo will continue to attrit units as they come off of their mobilization, at increasingly high numbers.
- This finally brought the task force freedom of movement along main supply routes into and out of the city, as the enemy's outlying forces were attrited.
- While the men have been working inside the city, other Marines have been relentlessly chasing and attriting the enemy outside the city.
- It had been attrited to such a point by air strikes that it was no longer a viable fighting unit.
- Until we achieve this level of coordination of effective fire and movement, the enemy will use their superior firepower to attrit us before we can close with and destroy them.
- Meanwhile, they would seek to attrit the US Air Force through the use of air defense guns and missiles that could fire rapidly and then immediately move.
Origin
First World War: back-formation from attrition.