Attrition: the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.
Zaat pg 80: "For El Shanqeety had found in the video an opportunity to compensate for some of the deprivation he had been suffering in his war of attrition, by way of theose films whose visual content is so explicit that it does away with the need for the spoken word."
In this instance, attrition allows the reader to understand that El Shanqeety's deprivation has been a long drawn out process, rather than a short period of time.
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