Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To withdraw; take away; draw or lift up.
- To subtract arithmetically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To withdraw; to take away.
- transitive verb To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
withdraw ; totake away . - verb To
subtract byarithmetical operation ; todeduct .
Etymologies
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Latin subdūcō ("I remove; I withdraw").
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Digges 1572 writes "to subduce or substray any sume, is wittily to pull a lesse fro a bigger number."
hernesheir commented on the word subduce
(v): to draw back; withdraw. (Math) to subtract.
January 7, 2009