subduct

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To push under or below.

   The upper tectonic plate had been subducting the lower one for millions of years by the time the eruption happened.

2. verb To move downwards underneath something.

   This tectonic plate had been subducting for millions of years by the time the eruption happened.

3. verb To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.

   He wished to subduct the caveat that he had entered earlier.

Similar words

oceanic subtrude undergo subdrain submarine undersend bring under subduce underdig submerse

Often followed by

ion from beneath the into under and at to