Subtract vs Abolish - What's the difference?
subtract | abolish |
To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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As verbs the difference between subtract and abolish
is that subtract is to remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .subtract
English
(wikipedia subtract)Verb
(en verb)- If you subtract the $100 for gas and bridge toll, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.
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* subtractionabolish
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Verb
(es)- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.