Synonyms for subtract
səbˈtræktsub·tract

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1. subtract

   Synonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, enlarge, extend, increase, join on, make up, subjoin, sum up

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1. subtract

   Synonyms:
   withdraw, remove, deduct, take

   Antonyms:
   add, import, adduce, give, bring

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1. subtract, deduct, take offverb

   make a subtraction

   "subtract this amount from my paycheck"

   Synonyms:
   derive, set forth, infer, take off, start out, take time off, part, start, lift off, deduct, get off the ground, depart, withhold, recoup, set out, deduce, set off

   Antonyms:
   add, add together

2. subtractverb

   take off or away

   "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"

   Synonyms:
   take off, deduct

   Antonyms:
   add together, add

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1. • Reduce

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1. subtractverb

   Synonyms:
   deduct, withdraw, take, take away

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1. List of paraphrases for "subtract":

   deduct, subtraction

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1. Vaninder Singh:

   Overall, what is clear to us is that the impact, will be limited in the near-term, but much more significant in the medium-term, we expect this event and what it represents to subtract as much as 0.3 percent from growth next year compared to our pre-event baseline and expect Asian central banks to respond with another round of easing.

2. Joel Fitzgibbon:

   If we were to stop sending thermal coal to Asia tomorrow it would be replaced by something less efficient and would add to, not subtract from, global emissions.

3. Mother Teresa:

   I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

4. John Gibbs:

   Businesses must make a concerted effort to hire and promote women who may or may not be up to par with their male counterparts, in addition, the chemistry of having women in a masculine environment may reduce business cohesiveness and productivity from what it might have been otherwise( this is especially true of the military, although by no means limited to it). Needless to say all these things subtract from a team's effort to produce efficiently.

5. Jeb Bush:

   You got to get to 50 - or pretty close to it - to win. And to get to 50 you have to add, not subtract, and so you can't start subtracting in a primary, and then you always have to keep your eye on the fact that while you're doing that you can't be subtracting for the general.