It may get worse when they get close to Baghdad, but, again, heavy Air Force bombing day after day appears to have, to use the Army's word, attrited, that is to say, badly downgraded the units which are supposed to be defending Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

The CINC determines which of the targets that he wishes to have attrited.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2001] Reference

They are being attrited as an outcome of the newly feminized learning environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Males, Females, and College, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Coordinating resupply of munitions stocks for attrited units at regeneration sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 9-6 Chapter 2]

We believe that overall each of those remaining four divisions has been significantly attrited to this point, significantly degraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

And we know that there are reports that would indicate forces who either are fighting along side or with the Taliban have been attrited.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001] Reference

And we understand that in recent days as a result of Air Force bombing, the Medina Division has been degraded or attrited as the Army says.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003] Reference

What we think we're seeing them do is move to reinforce other forces that have already been significantly degraded or attrited at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference

I agree that the anti-military turn of Northeast Democrats after Vietnam has badly damaged that reputation, and attrited some of our best military assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Kerry obsolete yet?] Reference

When his infantry began to become attrited during their attacks, he pulled them back to allow his mortars and heavy machine guns to weaken the French resolve.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

Can you talk at all about the formations that you're seeing in the north and how much you've attrited some of those divisions that we heard were in the north near Tikrit, for example?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

Knowing H, he may just resort to a denial tactic where every courier, parcel delivery and / or mail system is “interdicted and attrited with extreme prejudice” purely to prevent delivery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to Lord Bob of Nowhere.] Reference

What has happened over the course of the last four weeks is that most of the Hezbollah fighters have either engaged, attrited the Israelis, or they've evacuated and they've expanded to the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006] Reference

What we believe we say in the Baghdad and Medina divisions is we had attrited both of those formations, both materially and also morally (sic), to the point where when the first MEF, the Marines came on the Baghdad Division and then when 3rd ID hit the Medina Division, they were incapable of a coherent defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

But if you tried to conduct a guerrilla war under those circumstances, you would just be attrited by the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

At the same time we've attrited somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of his main ground forces, his ground force capabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

When they were attrited, not only were their acts of terror curtailed, but it turned out that far fewer than expected wanted to follow the dead to martyrdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian International News Agency] Reference

They have been attrited in Iraq by Shiite death squads, by American military operations and special death squads, and by the opposition of tribal and other local political forces, such as the 1920.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

Hafen Slawkenbergius his recreation and delight: ’twas for ever in his hands — you would have sworn, Sir, it had been a canon’s prayer-book — so worn, so glazed, so contrited and attrited was it with fingers and with thumbs in all its parts, from one end even unto the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Flint and coral, and gravel, and attrited pebbles enter into the combination of this extraordinary natural conglomeration, which no steel, however hardened, can separate, and which seems to have been imitated very successfully by the old builders in their cements and the substances used in the filling up of their grandest structures, as may be seen in the layers which unite the enormous slabs of granite in the Roman walls at Silchester, as well as in the works of the old monkish architects at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

This number, again, has been attrited.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006] Reference

Many of your senior officials are attrited.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Camp: Admiral Mullen Opposes Timtetable] Reference