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dawn27 · 06-07-2013, 12:31 PM

I ban Tracey because my patience are "wearing thin" for causing friction among the regulars in the banning thread. Oh and for making me have to look up another word...geesh !

attrition

1540s, "abrasion, a scraping," from L. attritionem (nom. attritio), lit. "a rubbing against," noun of action from attritus pp. of atterere "to wear, rub away," from ad- "to" + terere "to rub" (see throw). The earliest sense in Eng. is from Scholastic theology (late 14c.),

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