HOW TO PRONOUNCE
subtract
/səbˈtɹækt/
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What does subtract mean?
verb
- To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
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/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.
All this however had a tendency to subtract from my vocation as a missionary.
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That also God wishes to have protected, and He has commanded that no one shall subtract from, or curtail, his neighbor's possessions.
To put down rows of figures, not too long, add them and subtract them one from the other was more or less familiar work.
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.