All 4 Uses
attrition
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- But China is a vast country, and despite millions of casualties, Japan's war became a debilitating war of attrition.†
Chpt 3. *
- So they ordered attrition warfare: fighting that would slow the Americans down and inflict maximum casualties.†
Chpt 6.
- Kuribayashi concluded attrition was the best he could expect.†
Chpt 6.
- It would be a battle of attrition on terrain that had no front lines; where the attackers were exposed and the defenders fortified; where Japanese infiltrators stalked the night; where every rock, every ditch, every open stretch of ground could conceal a burrowing, suicidal enemy.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(attrition) a gradual reduction in number, strength, or effectiveness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)