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.
One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee.
Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).