Term: attrition: a wearing down to weaken or destroy
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: tide: there are usually two high and two low tides each day
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: heart valve: a valve to control one-way flow of blood
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: fungible: a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: snowball: ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: macedonian: the Slavic language of modern Macedonia
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: 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
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: impertinence: inappropriate playfulness
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: shtik: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: tantalizer: someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach
Broader: decrease: a change downward | Unrelated: spoil: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it