attritive
/əˈtraɪtɪv/
adjective
- Causing or relating to the wearing down of a surface or substance through friction or rubbing.
- Glaciers have an attritive effect on the landscape, carving valleys over millennia.
- The attritive force of the sandpaper smoothed the rough wood.
- The dentist warned that the attritive action of grinding teeth could damage the enamel.
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