A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate.

Roget 38: subtraction, subduction^†; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation^†; abstraction etc. (taking) 789; garbling, etc. v.. mutilation, detruncation^†; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment etc. 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease etc. 36; abrasion.    ... show more

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; reception etc. (taking in) 296; deglutition etc. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation^†; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension^†; abreption^†, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal etc. 38; abstraction, ademption^†; adrolepsy^†.    dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^†; bereavement; divestment; disherison^†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction etc. 297.    rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft etc. 791.    resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery etc. 775.    clutch, swoop, wrench; grip etc. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.    taker, captor.    [Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].    ... show more

Polish: subdukcja