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What is the verb for attrition?

What's the verb for attrition? Here's the word you're looking for.

attrit
  1. To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition
  2. To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out
  3. To be reduced in quantity through attrition
  4. (military) To lose, or to kill troops by attrition due to sustained firepower
attrits
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attrit
attritted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of attrit
  2. Examples:
    1. “Grant gave up his costly frontal assaults on fortified Rebel positions and slowly attritted Lee's combat power.”
attritting
  1. present participle of attrit
  2. Examples:
    1. “We fighters were just one more way of delivering munitions and attritting the enemy forces.”
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