subtract

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Plain form
subtract

Third-person singular
subtracts

Past tense
subtracted

Past participle
subtracted

Present participle
subtracting

  1. If something is subtracted, then it is taken away from something else.
    You must subtract your expenses from your income.
  2. One of the basic operations in mathematics.

Related words[change]


Basic math (edit)

arithmetic - algebra

addition - subtraction - multiplication - division

exponent - square root - fraction

least common multiple - greatest common factor