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51expenditure — Synonyms and related words: ablation, absorption, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount, assets, assimilation, attrition, budget, budgeting, burning up, charge, consumption, cost, costing out, damage, decrease, decrement,… …
52attrition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. abrasion (See deterioration, friction). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wearing down, wearing away, friction, rubbing, abrasion, weakening, grinding down, erosion, depreciation, gradual disintegration,… …
53wear — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. last, endure; use, show, display; tire, fatigue, weary; bear, don, put on; carry, have on; waste, consume, spend; rub, chafe, fray, abrade; jibe, tack, veer, yaw. See weariness, friction. n. clothing …
54attrition — noun 1) the battle would result in further attrition of their already lame naval force Syn: wearing down, wearing away, weakening, debilitation, enfeebling, sapping, attenuation; gradual loss 2) the skull shows attrition of the teeth Syn:… …
55joint disease — Introduction any of the diseases or injuries that affect human joints (joint). arthritis is no doubt the best known joint disease, but there are also many others. Diseases of the joints may be variously short lived or exceedingly chronic,… …
56attrition — Synonyms and related words: abatement, ablation, abrasion, abrasive, absorption, apologies, assimilation, atomization, attenuation, ayenbite of inwit, beating, bitterness, blunting, brecciation, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing,… …
57erosion — [n] deterioration; wearing away abrasion, attrition, consumption, corrosion, decrease, desedimentation, despoliation, destruction, disintegration, eating away, grinding down, spoiling, washing away, wear, wearing down; concepts 252,257,698 Ant.… …
58soil erosion — noun the washing away of soil by the flow of water • Hypernyms: ↑erosion, ↑eroding, ↑eating away, ↑wearing, ↑wearing away • Hyponyms: ↑washout, ↑wash * * * soil erosion UK US …
59fret — I. verb (fretted; fretting) Etymology: Middle English, to devour, fret, from Old English fretan to devour; akin to Old High German frezzan to devour, ezzan to eat more at eat Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to eat or gnaw into ; corr …
60Corrasion — is a geographical term for the process of mechanical erosion of a rock surface caused when materials are transported across it by running water, glaciers, wind, waves or gravitational movement downslope,[1] for example, the wearing away of fine… …
