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Subduct

Subduce \Sub*duce"\, Subduct \Sub*duct"\, v. t. [L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.]

  1. To withdraw; to take away.
    --Milton.

  2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

    If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.
    --Sir M. Hale.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subduct

1570s, "subtract," from Latin subductus, past participle of subducere "to draw away, take away" (see subduce). Geological sense is from 1971, a back-formation from subduction. Related: Subducted; subducting.

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subduct

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To push under or below. 2 (context intransitive English) To move downwards underneath something. 3 (context rare English) To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.

Usage examples of "subduct".

But, thanks to the water, plate tectonics operated, and much of the carbon dioxide was kept locked up in the carbonate rocks, which were periodically subducted into the mantle, just as on Earth.

And finally, after an interval so apparently protracted that within it mountain ranges rose and continents were subducted, the weeks also passed and I rose one autumnal morning to discover that today was the day.

Maybe to the center of the Earth, if the continental margin is as deeply subducted as you predict.

At the leading edge, the Cocos plate attacked the Caribbean plate far faster than it could be subducted.

Everything that was once Southeast Asia had disappeared, subducted miles deep beneath crustal plates overthrusting from the south, and from what could be made of the acoustic patterns being sent back from seismic packs scattered about the surface, it was still sinking.