2124 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɐtɹˈɪʃən], [ ɐtɹˈɪʃən], [ ɐ_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for attrition:

• act (noun)
• attrition (noun)
• compunction (noun)
• contrition (noun)
• erosion (noun)
• friction (noun)
• loss (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• penance (noun)
• penitence (noun)
• reduction (noun)
• redundancy (noun)
• remorse (noun)
• repentance (noun)
• rub (noun)
• wear (noun)
• wear and tear (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Attrition:

• n.

  •
  • skirmish,
  • gradual disintegration,
  • campaign,
  • combat,
  • assault,
  • mission,
  • pitched battle,
  • battle,
  • struggle,
  • depreciation,
  • war,
  • weakening,
  • incursion,
  • decline.
  •
  • cutback,
  • cut,
  • plunge,
  • collapse,
  • fall,
  • slump.
  •
  • resign,
  • bow out,
  • stand-down,
  • hand in your notice/resignation,
  • give/hand in (your) notice,
  • vacate,
  • step aside,
  • quit,
  • retire,
  • leave.
  • act (noun)
  • attrition.
  • attrition (noun)
  • contrition,
  • corrasion,
  • abrasion,
  • grinding.
  • compunction (noun)
  • stab conscience,
  • mis-giving,
  • mis giving.
  • contrition (noun)
  • selfreproach,
  • selfreproaches,
  • self reproach,
  • self-reproaches,
  • self reproaches.
  • erosion (noun)
  • wearing downs,
  • de sedimentation,
  • de crease,
  • dis integrations,
  • de spoliation,
  • washing aways,
  • de spoliations,
  • de-crease,
  • dis integration,
  • de-spoliations,
  • de-creases,
  • desedimentations,
  • de-sedimentation,
  • dis-integrations,
  • grinding downs,
  • spoilings,
  • de-spoliation,
  • dis-integration,
  • de sedimentations,
  • eating aways,
  • de creases,
  • de-sedimentations.
  • friction (noun)
  • Filings,
  • gratings,
  • Trituration,
  • grindings,
  • raspings,
  • scrapings,
  • Fretting.
  • loss (noun)
  • dissolution,
  • forfeiture,
  • privation,
  • dissipation,
  • dispossession,
  • ruin,
  • decrement,
  • depletion,
  • shrinkage,
  • deprivation,
  • divestiture,
  • setback,
  • expropriation,
  • loss,
  • debit,
  • exhaustion.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • self-reproach,
  • erosion,
  • grinding down,
  • self-flagellation,
  • tautology,
  • shrift,
  • lessening,
  • Macrology,
  • supererogation,
  • wear,
  • regret,
  • subtraction,
  • rub,
  • rubbing,
  • wearing,
  • detrition,
  • scourings,
  • periphrasis,
  • drop-off,
  • sorriness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • tautologies,
  • pangs of conscience,
  • subjugations,
  • subjugation,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • contriteness,
  • penance,
  • ruefulness,
  • mileage,
  • over-abundance,
  • markdown,
  • penitence,
  • subjection,
  • desedimentation,
  • stab of conscience,
  • wear and tear,
  • downgradings,
  • rue,
  • eating away,
  • penalty,
  • reduction,
  • eroding,
  • repentance,
  • shrifts,
  • compunction,
  • remorse,
  • brushings,
  • wearing away,
  • decrease,
  • friction,
  • sorrow,
  • Periphrases,
  • expiation,
  • Subdual,
  • washing away,
  • copiosity.
  • penance (noun)
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • selfflagellation,
  • selfflagellations,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • expiations,
  • self flagellation,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellations,
  • self-flagellations.
  • penitence (noun)
  • atonement,
  • confession,
  • apology,
  • breast-beating.
  • reduction (noun)
  • subduals,
  • de-valuation,
  • de valuation,
  • sub duals,
  • dis counts,
  • sub-tractions,
  • dis-counts,
  • over throw,
  • sub dual,
  • re bates,
  • over throws,
  • re-bate,
  • over-throw,
  • sub tractions,
  • sub-duals,
  • sub-traction,
  • re bate,
  • sub traction,
  • de-valuations,
  • sub-dual,
  • de valuations,
  • over-throws.
  • redundancy (noun)
  • over abundance,
  • pro-fusion,
  • super abundances,
  • macrologies,
  • copiosities,
  • super-abundance,
  • co piosity,
  • co-piosities,
  • supererogations,
  • co-piosity,
  • over abundances,
  • super-abundances,
  • pro fusions,
  • pro-fusions,
  • co piosities,
  • over-abundances.
  • remorse (noun)
  • re-morse,
  • re-morses,
  • pangs conscience,
  • re morses,
  • re morse.
  • repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  • rub (noun)
  • strokings,
  • smoothings,
  • kneadings.
  • wear (noun)
  • in-roads,
  • in roads,
  • dis-appearance,
  • dis appearances,
  • in-road,
  • in road,
  • dis-appearances,
  • dis appearance.
  • wear and tear (noun)
  • weatherings,
  • ablations,
  • hard wear,
  • overuse,
  • overuses,
  • ravages of time.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • movement.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • remorsefulness,
  • Penitency.
  •
  • resistance.
  • Other relevant words:
  • accident,
  • corking,
  • mortify,
  • relegating,
  • scour,
  • skin,
  • hang,
  • first-rate,
  • fecundation,
  • bully,
  • irrigate,
  • breach,
  • whole step,
  • subordinate,
  • hack,
  • concentration,
  • weewee,
  • dribble,
  • betray,
  • trim down,
  • clear,
  • back off,
  • pettishness,
  • botch up,
  • heartache,
  • excitement,
  • prisonbreak,
  • equipment casualty,
  • incision,
  • stop,
  • palliate,
  • raw,
  • pathos,
  • press,
  • tint,
  • drop curtain,
  • expiration,
  • radioactive decay,
  • medical dressing,
  • misdemeanor,
  • support,
  • infringement,
  • expire,
  • pull away,
  • dental caries,
  • salve,
  • crawl in,
  • manduction,
  • wispy,
  • override,
  • twilight,
  • effulgence,
  • allay,
  • excess,
  • undercut,
  • shrivel,
  • cool off,
  • hedge in,
  • black eye,
  • difference,
  • nerveless,
  • economic crisis,
  • foul up,
  • deaden,
  • snuff it,
  • flatten,
  • bread,
  • falling off,
  • divine service,
  • back down,
  • slip,
  • purpose,
  • deteriorate,
  • bluster,
  • cacography,
  • devastate,
  • cesspool,
  • relinquish,
  • guilty conscience,
  • scantness,
  • mend,
  • cva,
  • pee,
  • origin,
  • terms,
  • demolition,
  • give way,
  • debase,
  • cutpurse,
  • death,
  • fell,
  • immunity,
  • rough water,
  • throbbing,
  • humor,
  • choke,
  • flub,
  • bonyness,
  • sugar,
  • fellow feeling,
  • attenuated,
  • moderate,
  • effeminate,
  • whipping,
  • conquer,
  • uptake,
  • slacken off,
  • coppice,
  • waste matter,
  • degenerate,
  • employ,
  • compassionate,
  • subvert,
  • nightfall,
  • retreat,
  • abasement,
  • go on,
  • liaison,
  • disbursement,
  • drainage,
  • simpleness,
  • thinned,
  • accrue,
  • better,
  • richness,
  • sully,
  • fudge,
  • intermission,
  • settlement,
  • distraint,
  • curve,
  • forfeited,
  • founding,
  • engulf,
  • revoke,
  • boast,
  • rowdyism,
  • delegacy,
  • rift,
  • penalization,
  • cultivation,
  • permissive waste,
  • excitation,
  • wisecrack,
  • settle,
  • restitution,
  • autumn,
  • knifelike,
  • go bad,
  • moolah,
  • disgrace,
  • lancinating,
  • outspoken,
  • profuseness,
  • geological fault,
  • excise,
  • chicken feed,
  • whacking,
  • unfreeze,
  • mown,
  • ignominy,
  • donjon,
  • bead,
  • liberalisation,
  • reach,
  • famishment,
  • gap,
  • cabbage,
  • run off,
  • front,
  • entrust,
  • crude,
  • table service,
  • public utility,
  • constipation,
  • sweep,
  • adjoin,
  • discordance,
  • bust,
  • muted,
  • make out,
  • write out,
  • pass on,
  • scrap,
  • chill,
  • ebb out,
  • light,
  • submit,
  • discrepancy,
  • butt,
  • go down,
  • dimmed,
  • necrose,
  • bear,
  • cut back,
  • blow out,
  • labor,
  • descent,
  • refulgence,
  • sag down,
  • fag out,
  • mood,
  • paddle,
  • downsizing,
  • wavering,
  • fagot,
  • dungeon,
  • snap,
  • substructure,
  • defeat,
  • innervation,
  • nettlesome,
  • basis,
  • turn down,
  • gleam,
  • outgo,
  • burst,
  • cracking,
  • derangement,
  • go down on,
  • handshaking,
  • faggot,
  • cytosmear,
  • swell,
  • annoyance,
  • exempt,
  • slaughter,
  • indemnity,
  • drop by the wayside,
  • disablement,
  • gloss,
  • tailor,
  • outwear,
  • red,
  • manipulation,
  • depression,
  • leave-taking,
  • evaporate,
  • rack up,
  • buncombe,
  • cerebrovascular accident,
  • wrecking,
  • scruples,
  • flush it,
  • preordination,
  • fault,
  • lash out,
  • electrocution,
  • counteract,
  • yen,
  • public utility company,
  • nullify,
  • abbreviate,
  • exiguity,
  • state of war,
  • disembowelment,
  • load,
  • humour,
  • teasing,
  • countervail,
  • old,
  • press clipping,
  • spirit,
  • closing,
  • chagrin,
  • pass over,
  • fissure,
  • demasculinize,
  • lapse,
  • tornado,
  • dispraise,
  • straight-from-the-shoulder,
  • wearisome,
  • dab,
  • sharecropper,
  • cigaret,
  • waste product,
  • scavenge,
  • put on,
  • upheaval,
  • clams,
  • grooming,
  • utilisation,
  • quietus,
  • showing,
  • break in,
  • give away,
  • rotting,
  • scrawl,
  • aplomb,
  • nifty,
  • minify,
  • faint,
  • trend,
  • remitment,
  • maintain,
  • cast off,
  • barren,
  • queen,
  • rile,
  • fleet,
  • reject,
  • servicing,
  • a-one,
  • obtuse,
  • cast,
  • ding,
  • molder,
  • armed service,
  • trouncing,
  • pure tone,
  • hold open,
  • herb of grace,
  • declination,
  • expunction,
  • drainpipe,
  • disfigurement,
  • black,
  • gas mileage,
  • gelatin,
  • pansy,
  • plaguy,
  • pull back,
  • shingle,
  • contact lens,
  • impedance,
  • crudeness,
  • debilitative,
  • burning at the stake,
  • gather,
  • play out,
  • understructure,
  • rough,
  • looseness,
  • reduce,
  • reflect,
  • mellow,
  • ok,
  • sluggish,
  • understanding,
  • gust,
  • economic consumption,
  • mayhem,
  • diagonal,
  • cool down,
  • heap up,
  • ambage,
  • unrest,
  • tops,
  • modulate,
  • rest,
  • elude,
  • pine away,
  • consume,
  • cornucopia,
  • overhaul,
  • shoot a line,
  • magnetic dip,
  • trespass,
  • soak up,
  • impinging,
  • glow,
  • sang-froid,
  • furbish,
  • wearable,
  • entrancement,
  • extirpation,
  • stimulate,
  • close,
  • vexatious,
  • free-spoken,
  • ace,
  • tonicity,
  • disinclination,
  • bunk,
  • dishonor,
  • abrasive material,
  • fuckup,
  • repress,
  • resistor,
  • devastating,
  • sultan of swat,
  • judder,
  • bring out,
  • destroy,
  • slashed,
  • indent,
  • evade,
  • irreverence,
  • come down,
  • thin,
  • base,
  • pause,
  • waggle,
  • kayo,
  • indentation,
  • gelded,
  • poise,
  • pardon,
  • mill,
  • indemnification,
  • blank,
  • flow,
  • fellate,
  • scratch up,
  • work,
  • buff,
  • oddment,
  • contract,
  • slow,
  • run out,
  • split,
  • abradant,
  • take leave,
  • ache,
  • drive,
  • breakage,
  • salad dressing,
  • moil,
  • crash,
  • burnished,
  • chance event,
  • raspy,
  • divergence,
  • salving,
  • habit,
  • restrain,
  • fret,
  • stretch,
  • decline in quality,
  • lucre,
  • innovation,
  • fall by the wayside,
  • pull out,
  • keep down,
  • overmuchness,
  • scrape up,
  • pass up,
  • emaciate,
  • descend,
  • glossiness,
  • down,
  • spoilation,
  • usage,
  • motion,
  • granulation tissue,
  • iris,
  • louse up,
  • choice of words,
  • enjoyment,
  • draw back,
  • steep,
  • not bad,
  • scantiness,
  • shock,
  • malignment,
  • inter-group communication,
  • ebbing,
  • slander,
  • delegating,
  • tone up,
  • variance,
  • shake off,
  • straiten,
  • pilfer,
  • hold out,
  • snap off,
  • get hold of,
  • blackjack,
  • transfer,
  • worsen,
  • houseclean,
  • fatigue duty,
  • circumvent,
  • drift,
  • coggle,
  • downfall,
  • float,
  • cause,
  • soreness,
  • geld,
  • repose,
  • chew,
  • discontinue,
  • fixture,
  • apparent movement,
  • absorb,
  • hesitancy,
  • soaking up,
  • sense of right and wrong,
  • dive,
  • be adrift,
  • get to,
  • cosh,
  • declivity,
  • let up,
  • white,
  • light touch,
  • crevice,
  • proceed,
  • compile,
  • apparent motion,
  • indisposition,
  • wag,
  • sissy,
  • look,
  • bleak,
  • foreswear,
  • powder,
  • irritate,
  • give up,
  • go under,
  • tire out,
  • issue,
  • hold,
  • parry,
  • grieve,
  • teeter,
  • cutting out,
  • easiness,
  • scissure,
  • send packing,
  • guff,
  • bollix,
  • botheration,
  • engagement,
  • wipe out,
  • pick,
  • break off,
  • stopping point,
  • fall off,
  • normalize,
  • chuck up the sponge,
  • coffin nail,
  • launch,
  • jellify,
  • cliff,
  • reducing,
  • acrimony,
  • take the field,
  • provide,
  • pall,
  • stain,
  • gaolbreak,
  • eat up,
  • military service,
  • gasoline mileage,
  • handshake,
  • cranny,
  • flunk,
  • pass off,
  • unclouded,
  • kowtow,
  • touch,
  • diversionist,
  • hit the hay,
  • stammer,
  • delegation,
  • exertion,
  • dodder,
  • cesspit,
  • electric resistance,
  • grip,
  • poove,
  • slouch,
  • give,
  • allow,
  • wilt disease,
  • dunk,
  • split up,
  • oppression,
  • sheer,
  • cigarette,
  • discount rate,
  • overrule,
  • faded,
  • douse,
  • compression,
  • personnel casualty,
  • fluctuate,
  • guiltiness,
  • crepuscule,
  • tooth decay,
  • purloin,
  • bollocks up,
  • calumniate,
  • continue,
  • prolixness,
  • emasculated,
  • pin,
  • move,
  • hedging,
  • prehension,
  • lethargy,
  • grate,
  • swerve,
  • eradication,
  • red ink,
  • unwrap,
  • turn out,
  • prevent,
  • subjugate,
  • desolate,
  • tartness,
  • cancel,
  • gasconade,
  • fortuity,
  • bring down,
  • rap,
  • shin,
  • crepuscle,
  • shortened,
  • jailbreak,
  • keen,
  • quarrel,
  • drip,
  • missionary station,
  • extermination,
  • pine tree,
  • brushwood,
  • get into,
  • groundwork,
  • wording,
  • weariness,
  • die away,
  • scourge,
  • edit out,
  • lugubriousness,
  • saphead,
  • laying waste,
  • muffled,
  • countermine,
  • nance,
  • dusk,
  • expunging,
  • countermand,
  • purification,
  • round,
  • undermine,
  • pouf,
  • overmuch,
  • mollify,
  • sporty,
  • falloff,
  • die back,
  • deplete,
  • apologia,
  • cleft,
  • facilitate,
  • waste material,
  • plumb,
  • separatrix,
  • refulgency,
  • qualm,
  • weakened,
  • licentiousness,
  • tow truck,
  • devil,
  • slice,
  • timber,
  • graze,
  • plainspoken,
  • muggins,
  • payback,
  • snappishness,
  • guilt feelings,
  • ruining,
  • fall down,
  • virgule,
  • topnotch,
  • farewell,
  • sphacelus,
  • sissified,
  • guilt trip,
  • h2o,
  • didder,
  • weakness,
  • fall apart,
  • strangle,
  • kip down,
  • shekels,
  • rupture,
  • remission of sin,
  • melt down,
  • glib,
  • chuck,
  • damp,
  • groovy,
  • sexless,
  • suspension,
  • knockout,
  • function,
  • wordiness,
  • master,
  • parting,
  • fuck up,
  • buy,
  • note,
  • stay fresh,
  • catharsis,
  • make clean,
  • handicap,
  • pretermit,
  • leave out,
  • adjournment,
  • disability,
  • dinero,
  • compassionateness,
  • scathe,
  • put off,
  • water supply,
  • brag,
  • equipment failure,
  • snow,
  • duck,
  • fleur-de-lis,
  • smirch,
  • take over,
  • clothing,
  • evanesce,
  • rationalize,
  • striking,
  • dangle,
  • slur,
  • have on,
  • track,
  • melting,
  • dissonance,
  • cavity,
  • shorten,
  • unsettle,
  • neutralise,
  • muck up,
  • terminal,
  • military campaign,
  • difference of opinion,
  • leave of absence,
  • living,
  • despoilment,
  • wipeout,
  • remedy,
  • break of serve,
  • opposition,
  • meticulousness,
  • recantation,
  • flavor,
  • taking hold,
  • tout,
  • ebb away,
  • erupt,
  • stinger,
  • poorness,
  • liquidate,
  • fine-tune,
  • shipwreck,
  • motility,
  • vague,
  • bread and butter,
  • commission,
  • ravish,
  • windiness,
  • lighten,
  • pauperisation,
  • screw up,
  • bequeath,
  • phthisis,
  • smother,
  • strike down,
  • bitter,
  • give-up the ghost,
  • self-reproof,
  • sword lily,
  • filch,
  • adulteration,
  • leave alone,
  • accumulate,
  • fermentation,
  • dicker,
  • engross,
  • liberalization,
  • strike,
  • bankrupt,
  • poof,
  • shrink,
  • scrupulousness,
  • let alone,
  • suspicion,
  • fling,
  • harden,
  • hitch,
  • get over,
  • endure,
  • provocation,
  • hammer,
  • strengthen,
  • conciliation,
  • foundation garment,
  • condole with,
  • simplicity,
  • true pine,
  • miscarry,
  • heartbreak,
  • fight,
  • shiver,
  • develop,
  • rape,
  • moisten,
  • besmirch,
  • rock,
  • indirect expression,
  • croak,
  • loosening,
  • origination,
  • fertilisation,
  • shift,
  • spareness,
  • stamp down,
  • suppression,
  • offend,
  • spoilage,
  • foreshorten,
  • frontal,
  • go forth,
  • get at,
  • pesky,
  • asperse,
  • assail,
  • free fall,
  • scramble,
  • let off,
  • scrub up,
  • skirt,
  • subsidence,
  • ignominiousness,
  • fresh,
  • blunder,
  • lustrous,
  • grave,
  • hold back,
  • throw overboard,
  • round off,
  • boo-boo,
  • wear upon,
  • faze,
  • lift,
  • legal injury,
  • lettuce,
  • kick the bucket,
  • knead,
  • milkshake,
  • outrage,
  • reverse,
  • drooping,
  • subdued,
  • water system,
  • trim back,
  • culture,
  • stifling,
  • mellow out,
  • surfeit,
  • wampum,
  • get out,
  • exhaust,
  • let on,
  • minimisation,
  • transgress,
  • smudge,
  • disintegrate,
  • unhappiness,
  • decease,
  • snag,
  • defacement,
  • go out,
  • swag,
  • reflux,
  • closing curtain,
  • stabbing,
  • thriftlessness,
  • excoriate,
  • brush off,
  • break through,
  • conk out,
  • abjection,
  • skip,
  • pass,
  • worsening,
  • run through,
  • collect,
  • cissy,
  • intone,
  • wash,
  • stultification,
  • stack up,
  • bowel movement,
  • neglect,
  • bother,
  • usurpation,
  • do in,
  • overutilisation,
  • mute,
  • excision,
  • hook,
  • anneal,
  • bomb,
  • tremble,
  • sack out,
  • wild,
  • safari,
  • remittal,
  • acculturation,
  • stifle,
  • banging,
  • piercing,
  • passing,
  • rowdiness,
  • slackness,
  • clean-living,
  • edit,
  • hold on,
  • redress,
  • superabundance,
  • start,
  • ebb down,
  • suffering,
  • burn,
  • squander,
  • don,
  • fumble,
  • hiatus,
  • bollocks,
  • adulterated,
  • abjuration,
  • slash,
  • break away,
  • fix,
  • expend,
  • cover,
  • drag,
  • masthead,
  • immerse,
  • peevishness,
  • release,
  • contravention,
  • falling out,
  • polish up,
  • biliousness,
  • drop out,
  • muscle contraction,
  • raggedness,
  • cold shoulder,
  • bungle,
  • article of clothing,
  • loot,
  • humiliating,
  • quiver,
  • gainsay,
  • quaver,
  • quip,
  • go to sleep,
  • choppiness,
  • piss,
  • overturn,
  • rancour,
  • elimination,
  • petty criticism,
  • distrust,
  • negate,
  • misdemeanour,
  • self-accusation,
  • turn in,
  • allow for,
  • wrack,
  • sneak,
  • surrender,
  • infract,
  • radiance,
  • sheeny,
  • handclasp,
  • challenge,
  • confiscate,
  • snub,
  • debased,
  • fair,
  • mortifying,
  • fracture,
  • shed,
  • save,
  • warfare,
  • die out,
  • knock off,
  • fixing,
  • chap,
  • terminate,
  • snarf,
  • bump,
  • clean house,
  • put down,
  • veer,
  • interruption,
  • hit the sack,
  • viewing,
  • drop cloth,
  • strife,
  • remainder,
  • hogwash,
  • inclination,
  • angle of dip,
  • remit,
  • penalisation,
  • pearl,
  • commiseration,
  • emollient,
  • tow car,
  • downslope,
  • lessen,
  • wasting,
  • snipe,
  • disagree,
  • electrical resistance,
  • genuflect,
  • placation,
  • glossy,
  • milage,
  • religious service,
  • put out,
  • desensitise,
  • nemesis,
  • binding,
  • avail,
  • surmount,
  • prune,
  • go along,
  • chaparral,
  • altercate,
  • break down,
  • rationalise,
  • role,
  • saboteur,
  • wilting,
  • toughness,
  • eternal sleep,
  • want,
  • resistivity,
  • run afoul,
  • simoleons,
  • profligacy,
  • become flat,
  • coating,
  • forget,
  • stumble,
  • meld,
  • shoplifting,
  • relaxation method,
  • season,
  • brush up,
  • legal ouster,
  • exit,
  • abandon,
  • crumple,
  • pass away,
  • wear off,
  • blur,
  • long-windedness,
  • bright,
  • throw away,
  • ravage,
  • dice,
  • self-mortification,
  • candid,
  • still,
  • reveal,
  • great,
  • slack off,
  • point-blank,
  • fertilization,
  • bobble,
  • castrate,
  • go to bed,
  • clean and jerk,
  • vesture,
  • alleviate,
  • switch off,
  • recess,
  • covering,
  • bloomer,
  • utilization,
  • withering,
  • baseball swing,
  • institution,
  • weave,
  • attack,
  • smell,
  • practice,
  • ease up,
  • preserve,
  • introduction,
  • smooth,
  • ease off,
  • pulmonary tuberculosis,
  • underground,
  • help,
  • katharsis,
  • ravaging,
  • resin,
  • spill,
  • comfort,
  • throw in the towel,
  • travail,
  • quash,
  • foul-up,
  • inspection and repair,
  • interrupt,
  • retain,
  • fool,
  • press cutting,
  • utilise,
  • smutch,
  • rabbet,
  • flavour,
  • plunk,
  • bunkum,
  • tone of voice,
  • sacrifice,
  • wearying,
  • uncontaminating,
  • link,
  • relegate,
  • dough,
  • thawing,
  • white plague,
  • yearn,
  • price reduction,
  • finish,
  • phrasing,
  • torment,
  • thaw,
  • walloping,
  • devitalisation,
  • fine,
  • wrong,
  • jade,
  • souse,
  • nobble,
  • tire,
  • mess up,
  • debit entry,
  • signal flag,
  • cut off,
  • run,
  • set on,
  • reversal,
  • buy the farm,
  • tiring,
  • whip,
  • harm,
  • unthaw,
  • deputation,
  • damages,
  • hesitate,
  • exercise,
  • substitute,
  • prejudicious,
  • hunky-dory,
  • starting line,
  • scratchy,
  • suck,
  • severance,
  • meagerness,
  • omit,
  • argufy,
  • slew,
  • lay waste to,
  • slap-up,
  • glint,
  • inflect,
  • jaundice,
  • vexation,
  • meet,
  • requital,
  • utility program,
  • pelf,
  • malposition,
  • disorderliness,
  • irritating,
  • bothersome,
  • demulcent,
  • radiate,
  • conclusion,
  • drop dead,
  • step,
  • kick downstairs,
  • check,
  • apoplexy,
  • assuage,
  • rasp,
  • call off,
  • flagstone,
  • tempestuousness,
  • acerbity,
  • thicket,
  • thin out,
  • set down,
  • stark,
  • waste pipe,
  • assuredness,
  • refinement,
  • disbursal,
  • gravel,
  • blot,
  • toil,
  • coke,
  • break dance,
  • quality,
  • conk,
  • sabotage,
  • nark,
  • mistrust,
  • penetration,
  • goal,
  • physical contact,
  • foreign mission,
  • feeling,
  • faltering,
  • intake,
  • mark,
  • oxidisation,
  • smash,
  • relaxation behavior,
  • repeal,
  • send away,
  • debacle,
  • toddle,
  • solidus,
  • satisfaction,
  • swing,
  • impart,
  • swob,
  • strike out,
  • moderation,
  • roll up,
  • come,
  • perish,
  • unnerve,
  • feel for,
  • dishonour,
  • milk shake,
  • service of process,
  • blooper,
  • kale,
  • go,
  • rag,
  • trimmed,
  • tincture,
  • irritability,
  • fade out,
  • top-notch,
  • surliness,
  • puff,
  • hammering,
  • deal,
  • purging,
  • numb,
  • languish,
  • minus,
  • defame,
  • salvage,
  • seduction,
  • serve,
  • abstract,
  • ball up,
  • queer,
  • shadowy,
  • wear out,
  • resentment,
  • bandaging,
  • breakup,
  • give out,
  • godforsaken,
  • smoothen,
  • bed,
  • violate,
  • throb,
  • demeaning,
  • overdrive,
  • sympathize with,
  • boner,
  • flitter,
  • military mission,
  • usance,
  • go away,
  • hunting expedition,
  • tonus,
  • breaking,
  • purge,
  • mishandle,
  • overexploitation,
  • spay,
  • serving,
  • dethaw,
  • attaint,
  • redundance,
  • discharge,
  • miss,
  • overutilization,
  • bush,
  • gash,
  • exhausting,
  • desolation,
  • cornerstone,
  • sissyish,
  • edged,
  • encounter,
  • blast,
  • encroachment,
  • stinging,
  • evenfall,
  • going,
  • break-dance,
  • armed combat,
  • corruption,
  • sputter,
  • separate,
  • suppress,
  • step down,
  • soften,
  • demasculinise,
  • plaguey,
  • let out,
  • puncture,
  • assume,
  • use of goods and services,
  • rub down,
  • keep open,
  • repentantly,
  • turmoil,
  • adhesive friction,
  • whirl,
  • spend,
  • gouge,
  • remnant,
  • contend,
  • disaccord,
  • empty,
  • swash,
  • get through,
  • dismiss,
  • blind,
  • tap,
  • despoilation,
  • thorniness,
  • molestation,
  • decomposition,
  • push aside,
  • timbre,
  • crack-up,
  • starving,
  • cam stroke,
  • fundament,
  • overlook,
  • rarefy,
  • trill,
  • aggravation,
  • sleep,
  • pound,
  • hang-up,
  • shove off,
  • flicker,
  • muff,
  • turn off,
  • mop up,
  • deletion,
  • last,
  • demote,
  • withdraw,
  • time out,
  • musical note,
  • disfiguration,
  • coolheaded,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • unfastening,
  • creation,
  • tumble,
  • push,
  • stutter,
  • slicing,
  • unbosom,
  • flutter,
  • bad luck,
  • annul,
  • bm,
  • excite,
  • whole tone,
  • take,
  • rescind,
  • fairly,
  • agitate,
  • recompense,
  • flop,
  • sump,
  • instauration,
  • step-down,
  • depart,
  • cut of meat,
  • bank discount,
  • prick,
  • dislocation,
  • benumb,
  • fray,
  • weary,
  • disruption,
  • grind,
  • ferment,
  • dilapidate,
  • newspaper clipping,
  • preoccupation,
  • shrivel up,
  • fighting,
  • degeneracy,
  • curse,
  • intermit,
  • uncover,
  • relief,
  • utility-grade,
  • keep back,
  • tough luck,
  • dump,
  • dissolve,
  • political campaign,
  • contravene,
  • gelt,
  • strip,
  • tangency,
  • forego,
  • fluff,
  • vengeance,
  • unload,
  • exorcism,
  • habituate,
  • effort,
  • bury,
  • drudge,
  • glisten,
  • macerate,
  • vaunt,
  • radiancy,
  • break up,
  • abridge,
  • combustion,
  • dig,
  • pip,
  • mending,
  • swallow hole,
  • spoliation,
  • immersion,
  • drubbing,
  • daub,
  • stir,
  • sharecrop farmer,
  • overcome,
  • hurt,
  • waffle,
  • brush aside,
  • clipping,
  • grounding,
  • crock up,
  • prejudicial,
  • piddle,
  • refine,
  • ho-hum,
  • engrave,
  • harsh,
  • driblet,
  • chewing,
  • waddle,
  • moral sense,
  • all right,
  • result,
  • scratch line,
  • finale,
  • lacing,
  • slake,
  • mule,
  • scar,
  • diluted,
  • will,
  • nettle,
  • happy chance,
  • glitter,
  • vacillation,
  • capitulation,
  • renounce,
  • apprehension,
  • detrimental,
  • simplification,
  • diction,
  • devolve,
  • harshness,
  • feel,
  • gravelly,
  • occupy,
  • untying,
  • excuse,
  • deduction,
  • copse,
  • chant,
  • mop,
  • steal,
  • upset,
  • disappear,
  • nick,
  • expunge,
  • gloaming,
  • burn out,
  • social movement,
  • grasping,
  • tiptop,
  • conglomerate,
  • fairy,
  • shortness,
  • overleap,
  • bang-up,
  • intrusion,
  • chasten,
  • itch,
  • utilize,
  • lolly,
  • sway,
  • wasting disease,
  • slit,
  • tone down,
  • diminish,
  • ignore,
  • drop off,
  • inscribe,
  • pain,
  • hoard,
  • urine,
  • informality,
  • pull up stakes,
  • apply,
  • disgracefulness,
  • self-abasement,
  • plum,
  • expose,
  • meticulosity,
  • droop,
  • standdown,
  • sporting,
  • clamber,
  • come up,
  • part,
  • discover,
  • vilification,
  • muscular contraction,
  • pestering,
  • ware,
  • cash in one's chips,
  • pickpocket,
  • gauntness,
  • repair,
  • repent,
  • ending,
  • annoy,
  • prostration,
  • refuse,
  • breakout,
  • fading,
  • declension,
  • buffeting,
  • partitioning,
  • thinness,
  • oxidization,
  • clear out,
  • crusade,
  • waive,
  • hullabaloo,
  • predestination,
  • softened,
  • escape from,
  • conquering,
  • move back,
  • glistening,
  • reconcile,
  • preoccupancy,
  • botch,
  • vex,
  • palliation,
  • prison-breaking,
  • infringe,
  • crucify,
  • cumulate,
  • offer,
  • spot,
  • cut down,
  • alter,
  • amass,
  • fondle,
  • foot,
  • torture,
  • uninfected,
  • disregard,
  • dodge,
  • lead,
  • free,
  • wear thin,
  • ebb off,
  • shake up,
  • dense,
  • gloominess,
  • sinkhole,
  • throw,
  • disappearing,
  • pauperization,
  • public-service corporation,
  • pinch,
  • founder,
  • cease,
  • counterbalance,
  • scribble,
  • pique,
  • recrudesce,
  • celebrate,
  • shinny,
  • peachy,
  • gall,
  • precipitate,
  • trim,
  • eat,
  • service program,
  • slack,
  • fall in,
  • epicene,
  • cutting off,
  • hedgerow,
  • adjourn,
  • bumble,
  • return,
  • sustenance,
  • outlay,
  • lay off,
  • charge,
  • observe,
  • shiny,
  • livelihood,
  • spoil,
  • cleanse,
  • slide down,
  • dumb,
  • carving,
  • beam,
  • wear down,
  • okay,
  • open frame,
  • eviction,
  • engrossment,
  • get around,
  • shot,
  • slough,
  • throw in,
  • shrinking,
  • unobjectionable,
  • break out,
  • magnetic inclination,
  • lassitude,
  • film editing,
  • leave office,
  • price,
  • denigrate,
  • bollix up,
  • body of water,
  • gas,
  • drop down,
  • deflower,
  • misfortune,
  • missionary post,
  • nose candy,
  • moirae,
  • depravity,
  • correct,
  • pitting,
  • sheepishness,
  • go wrong,
  • thudding,
  • departure,
  • seesaw,
  • atomisation,
  • sustain,
  • negative,
  • shade,
  • meagreness,
  • bust up,
  • come apart,
  • tiresome,
  • moulder,
  • penitentially,
  • wasteland,
  • divulge,
  • lancinate,
  • vacillate,
  • telephone dial,
  • missionary work,
  • sweat,
  • diffraction grating,
  • shaving,
  • run down,
  • leaden,
  • boring,
  • go against,
  • pestiferous,
  • shattering,
  • good luck,
  • annoying,
  • clash,
  • fuel consumption rate,
  • paltriness,
  • slick,
  • initiation,
  • slue,
  • forgo,
  • infraction,
  • remittance,
  • leave behind,
  • reprieve,
  • sally,
  • keep on,
  • poverty,
  • neat,
  • labour,
  • chicken out,
  • condensation,
  • decompose,
  • tomfool,
  • super,
  • tedious,
  • dissolving,
  • skimming,
  • quelling,
  • middleman,
  • recede,
  • rancor,
  • disclose,
  • masking,
  • forthright,
  • frank,
  • discomfort,
  • respite,
  • tame,
  • phraseology,
  • crack up,
  • brokenheartedness,
  • vexing,
  • sidestep,
  • pop off,
  • shove along,
  • sportsmanlike,
  • sphacelate,
  • throw off,
  • dandy.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • retraction,
  • impairment,
  • discord,
  • Languishment,
  • using up,
  • chafe,
  • abatement,
  • diminution,
  • Weathering,
  • grief,
  • extraction,
  • dressing,
  • dip,
  • damage,
  • enervation,
  • expending,
  • Crumbling,
  • scratch,
  • remission,
  • Levigation,
  • brecciation,
  • burning up,
  • fatigue,
  • coefficient of friction,
  • shame,
  • sliding friction,
  • wastefulness,
  • wastage,
  • curtailment,
  • grazing,
  • shining,
  • evisceration,
  • expenditure,
  • disagreement,
  • scratching,
  • ruth,
  • atomization,
  • dispute,
  • shamefacedness,
  • Abrading,
  • Blunting,
  • redundancy,
  • Burnishing,
  • wearing down,
  • deadening,
  • excoriation,
  • mitigation,
  • derogation,
  • Powdering,
  • debilitation,
  • detraction,
  • scraping,
  • elbow grease,
  • abrasive,
  • trench warfare,
  • Apologies,
  • absorption,
  • scuff,
  • spending,
  • scrape,
  • deterioration,
  • Mashing,
  • roughness,
  • filing,
  • grinding away,
  • stroke,
  • Dulling,
  • Shredding,
  • impoverishment,
  • scrub,
  • penitently,
  • shamefulness,
  • Comminution,
  • Regretting,
  • Deliquescence,
  • fragmentation,
  • smashing,
  • stroking,
  • massage,
  • conflict,
  • assimilation,
  • galling,
  • shamefastness,
  • granulation,
  • regrets,
  • waste,
  • finishing,
  • softening,
  • slackening,
  • pounding,
  • Buffing,
  • enfeeblement,
  • Damping,
  • ayenbite of inwit,
  • thinning,
  • erasure,
  • digestion,
  • ingestion,
  • Smoothing,
  • corroding,
  • repining,
  • bitterness,
  • crushing,
  • extenuation,
  • beating,
  • corrosion,
  • inanition,
  • Effemination,
  • rosin,
  • scrubbing,
  • wistfulness,
  • wearing out,
  • sandblasting,
  • Confrication,
  • shortening,
  • drain,
  • scouring,
  • Arrosion,
  • dilution,
  • relaxation,
  • Sanding,
  • Affriction,
  • rasping,
  • chafing,
  • Fraying,
  • ablation,
  • truncation,
  • retrenchment,
  • consumption,
  • Frication,
  • attenuation,
  • polishing,
  • Limature,
  • Limation,
  • cutting,
  • squandering,
  • disparagement,
  • devitalization,
  • dissension,
  • regretfulness,
  • wasting away,
  • grating,
  • disintegration.

Paraphrases for Attrition:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    exertion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abandonment, departure, depletion, deterioration, diminution, discontinuation, downsizing, dropout, exhaustion, neglect, resignation, Depuration, drop-out.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    decrease, desertion, drain, erosion, mortality, separation, turnover, usury, wear.

Homophones for Attrition:

• adoration.

Hyponym for Attrition:

• n.

  • act
    rubbing, friction, detrition.
  • event
    drop-off, lessening, decrease.
  • phenomenon
    rubbing, friction.
  • process
    wearing, wearing away, eating away, erosion, eroding.