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attrition - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | attrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wearing down or away |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, depreciation, disintegration, erosion, grinding, wear, attenuation, debilitation, rubbing, thinning, weakening |
| Antonyms: | building, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | attrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | penance, penitence, remorse, repentance, contriteness, remorsefulness |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, pity, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, shame, sympathy, penitency, punctiliousness, second thoughts, stab of conscience |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | contrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, humiliation, penance, penitence, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sorrow, contriteness, penitency, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | indifference, meanness, hurtfulness |
| Main Entry: | erosion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration; wearing away |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, consumption, corrosion, decrease, despoliation, destruction, disintegration, wear, desedimentation, eating away, grinding down, spoiling, washing away, wearing down |
| Notes: | abrasion is the process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction; corrosion is the act or process of destroying a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action; erosion is any of a group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, rebuilding, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
| Synonyms: | absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, remorse, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sorrow, suffering, expiation, purgation, remorsefulness, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift |
| Main Entry: | penitence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compunction, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humiliation, penance, qualm, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sadness, scruple, contriteness, humbling, remorsefulness, ruefulness, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | shamelessness |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contrition, grief, guilt, penance, penitence, pity, regret, repentance, rue, shame, sorrow, contriteness, pangs of conscience, penitency, remorsefulness, ruefulness, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | happiness, satisfaction, good conscience, remorselessness |
| Main Entry: | repentance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling bad for past action |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, conscience, contrition, grief, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, rue, ruth, sorrow, contriteness, penitency, self-reproach, sorriness |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
| Main Entry: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use, corrosion |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste, wear and tear, impairment, inroads |
| Main Entry: | wear and tear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devaluation due to use |
| Synonyms: | attrition, consumption, depletion, depreciation, dissipation, erosion, ablation, decrement, hard wear, overuse, ravages of time, wearing away, weathering |
| Main Entry: | friction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rubbing |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, agitation, attrition, erosion, grating, grinding, irritation, massage, rasping, resistance, traction, chafing, filing, fretting, scraping, soreness, trituration, wearing away |
| Main Entry: | rub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stroke, massage |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, caress, friction, grinding, pat, polish, rasping, shine, smear, swab, swipe, wear, wipe, brushing, kneading, scouring, scraping, smoothing, stroking |
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