ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Worn down by continued friction. Also fig.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1770), III. 50. So glazed, so contrited and attrited was it with fingers and with thumbs in all its parts.
1866. J. Rose, Ovid’s Met., 47. The stream … Rolling and bubbling through attrited sand.
1872. M. Collins, Pr. Clarice, I. xiv. 206. The traveller … gets his individuality toned down, gets a softened and attrited character.
