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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of subduct.

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  • Now by frequent repetition the surprise, incongruity, or novelty ceases; and, in consequence, the pleasure or pain which accompanied it, and also the degree of volition which was excited by that sensation of pain or pleasure; and thus the sensorial power of sensation and of volition are subducted from the catenation of vital actions, and they are in consequence produced much weaker, and at length cease entirely.

    Note VII 1803

  • JPG or can become subducted under the subduction zone - where a plate goes under another plate through plate techtonics.

    Oceanic Series | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The appearance is that the anthropogenic carbon load is totally subducted into the natural carbon cycle.

    Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch 2009

  • Deep earthquakes occur in areas where oceanic crust is being actively subducted.

    Earthquake 2010

  • He's essentially subducted Hillary's machine and has incorporated it into his own.

    Jim Jones - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • At other edges, a plate may be ‘subducted’ under a neighbouring plate.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • At other edges, a plate may be ‘subducted’ under a neighbouring plate.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • So no moretransport of carbon and hydrogen in the subducted oceanic crust, unless regulated by Obama.

    President Obama shows himself up to be a semi-literate fuckwad. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Carbon dioxide released by volcanoes enters the lower lithosphere when carbon-rich sediments and sedimentary rocks are subducted and partially melted beneath tectonic boundary zones.

    Carbon cycle 2009

  • These islands are of volcanic origin and are supposed to have formed over a "hot spot" in the Earth's crust and then subsequently moved eastwards as the Nazca Plate has been subducted beneath the South American continent.

    Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests 2007

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