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subtract

verb

1 subtract

Make a subtraction:
— Subtract this amount from my paycheck.

synonyms: deduct, take off.

Roget 36: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge etc. (shorten) 201; shrink etc. (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; ... show more

Roget 85: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; ... show more

Roget 38: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.    garble, mutilate, amputate, ... show more

Dutch: aftrekken

2 subtract

Take off or away.

Dutch: afgaan


Moby thesaurus: abate, abrade, abrupt, abstract, add, algebraize, alienate, bate, calculate, cast, cast off, cast out, cipher, compute, curtail, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, decrease, deduct ... show more.

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