Term: attrition: a wearing down to weaken or destroy
Candidate hypernym: decrease: a change downward → 1
Candidate hypernym: tide: there are usually two high and two low tides each day → 0
Candidate hypernym: heart valve: a valve to control one-way flow of blood → 0
Candidate hypernym: fungible: a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation → 0
Candidate hypernym: snowball: ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce → 0
Candidate hypernym: macedonian: the Slavic language of modern Macedonia → 0
Candidate hypernym: pick's disease: a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia → 0
Candidate hypernym: impertinence: inappropriate playfulness → 0
Candidate hypernym: shtik: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating → 0
Candidate hypernym: tantalizer: someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach → 0
Candidate hypernym: spoil: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it → 0