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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

subtract

/səbˈtɹækt/

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What does subtract mean?

verb

  1. To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.

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IPA pronunciation

/səbˈtɹækt/

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I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year.
Jonathan SwiftA Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publickProject Gutenberg ebook #1080
All this however had a tendency to subtract from my vocation as a missionary.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
More book examples (3)
That also God wishes to have protected, and He has commanded that no one shall subtract from, or curtail, his neighbor's possessions.
Martin LutherMartin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and DauTranslated by F. (Friedrich) Bente; W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) DauProject Gutenberg ebook #1722
To put down rows of figures, not too long, add them and subtract them one from the other was more or less familiar work.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
A chemical change may add something to a substance, or subtract something from it, or it may both subtract and add, making a new substance with entirely different properties.
Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) WilliamsAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #3708