Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erroneous form of *subtractor, subtracter: used in the quotation in the sense of ‘detractor.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who subtracts.
- noun obsolete A detractor; a slanderer.
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Examples
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Intriguing, full of low malice and scheming, a "slanderer and substractor" he certainly was, but no fool.
Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888
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Filters applied to the image include a mirror, a film strip, a pixelator, and a background substractor.
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