Crossword-Solution: SUBTRACTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SUBTRACTS | anagram | SUBSTRACT |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SUBTRACTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Does grade-school math | 1 answer |
| Swaths of land | 1 answer |
| Takes away | 4 answers |
| Takes off | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUBTRACTS (5)
When the crop is growing the merchant watches it like a hawk; as soon as it is ready for market he takes possession of it, sells it, pays the landowner his rent, subtracts his bill for supplies, and if, as sometimes happens, there is anything left, he hands it over to the black serf for his Christmas celebration.
SOCRATES: In like manner, he who by syllables and letters imitates the nature of things, if he gives all that is appropriate will produce a good image, or in other words a name; but if he subtracts or perhaps adds a little, he will make an image but not a good one; whence I infer that some names are well and others ill made.
Sir John Perrot was a goodly gentleman, and of the sword; and he was of a very ancient descent, as an heir to many subtracts of gentry, especially from Guy de Brain of Lawhorn; so was he of a very vast estate, and came not to Court for want and to these advancements.
While he's pourin' in a gill of corn jooce, a wag who's present subtracts the pig an' puts in one of old Hickman's black Noofoundland pups.
They render her an account of their administration and the employment of their revenues, from which she subtracts carefully her third share, as the essential right of her crosier of authority." "Have you invited the Benedictine Fathers to your fete in the wood?" the King asked me, smiling.
Quotes with SUBTRACTS (3)
I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesth…
Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2024).