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verb
- (transitive) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number
- If you the $100 for gas and bridge toll, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.
Translations: - Dutch: aftrekken
- French: soustraire(fr)
- German: subtrahieren(de)
- Italian: sottrarre(it)
- Spanish: substraer(es)
Etymology: From Latin subtractus, past participle of subtrahere to draw from beneath, withdraw, remove; sub under + trahere to draw
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