attrit vs regret

attrit

verb
  • To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out. 

  • To be reduced in quantity through attrition. 

  • To lose, or to kill, troops by attrition due to sustained firepower. 

  • To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition. 

noun
  • One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee. 

regret

verb
  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

noun
  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

How often have the words attrit and regret occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )