Synonyms of the word

attrition

• n. Wearing or grinding down by friction.
• n. The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve…
• n. (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation,…
• n. (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.
• n. (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse.
• n. (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
• n. (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.

abrasion

• n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• n. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
• n. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching…
• n. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
• n. (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have…
• n. (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

contriteness

• n. The state of being contrite.

contrition

• n. The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse.
• n. The act of grinding or rubbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

corrasion

• n. wear caused by wind-blown or water-borne sand.
• n. wear caused by stream-borne or glacier-borne stones.
• n. wear caused by collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

detrition

• n. attrition; erosion by friction.

drop-off

• n. A sudden downward slope.
• n. A sudden decrease (such as in the level of sales).

eroding

• v. present participle of erode.

erosion

• n. (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff…
• n. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction,…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
• n. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
• n. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from…
• n. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
• n. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

friction

• n. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
• n. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
• n. (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.

grinding

• v. present participle of grind.
• n. The action of grinding together or crushing into small particles.
• n. (dance) A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together.
• n. (online gaming) Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the act or sound of grinding.

lessening

• v. present participle of lessen.
• n. A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.

regret

• v. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened,…
• v. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
• n. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different;…
• n. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

rubbing

• n. An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with…
• v. present participle of rub.

rue

• n. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
• n. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
• v. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had…
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
• n. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used…

ruefulness

• n. The property of being rueful.

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

wearing

• adj. intended to be worn.
• adj. causing tiredness.
• adj. causing erosion.
• n. The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
• n. The act by which something is worn.
• n. That which is worn; clothes; garments.
• v. present participle of wear.