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subtractingverbpresent participle of subtract to take away (an amount or number) from a totalif you subtract 10 from 23, you get 13 you can subtract the time you spent daydreaming from your total homework time abating, deducting, knocking off, taking off decreasing, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling adding, tacking (on) adjoining, annexing, appendingcomplementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, multiplying, raising |