Deduct vs Detract - What's the difference?
deduct | detract |
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
To take away; to withdraw or remove.
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 27
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
* Drayton
As verbs the difference between deduct and detract
is that deduct is to take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount while detract is to take away; to withdraw or remove.deduct
English
Verb
(en verb)- I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
Anagrams
*detract
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.}}
- That calumnious critic / Detracting what laboriously we do.
