retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation†; abstraction &c
(taking) 789; garbling, &c v.. mutilation, detruncation†; amputation;
abscission, excision, recision; curtailment &c 201; minuend,
subtrahend; decrease &c 36; abrasion.
V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw,
take from, take away; detract.
garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate†; cut off, cut away, cut
out; abscind†, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape,
file; geld, castrate; eliminate.
diminish &c 36; curtail &c (shorten) 201; deprive of &c (take)
789; weaken.
Adj. subtracted &c v.; subtractive.
Adv. in deduction &c n.; less; short of; minus, without, except, except
for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of,
save and except, with a reservation; not counting, if one doesn't
count.