The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice.
Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure.
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Examples for "grinding"
Examples for "grinding"
1Nevertheless, seven years of grinding war have taught Ahmad to be prepared.
2Just 10 companies account for two-thirds of global grinding, the report said.
3A particularly grinding shudder produced a long crashing, over to her right.
4In any case, she didn't seem to be grinding quite as hard.
5And all the time, of course, there is the ever-present, grinding cold.
1Market forces would have thinned the ranks through natural attrition, they said.
2Three separate time periods are used in order to prevent attrition bias.
3The two methods of scoring for tooth attrition produced slightly different results.
4Process evaluation: reach, attrition and qualitative feedback from service recipients and providers.
5Severe attrition requiring full-mouth rehabilitation is a common finding associated with DI-2.
1The abrasion-effects produced by the impact of the snow particles were astonishing.
2No bruising or abrasion in the area of the anus or genitalia.
3The material isn't designed to withstand assaults from sharps or high abrasion.
4Lisa held a rectangular card to the left of the abrasion.
5Water, wind, and abrasion resistant, the jacket kept the elements out.
1These broad canyons, or canyon valleys, are carved by the streams in obedience to an interesting law of corrasion.
2It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.
Translations for detrition