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subact

subact verb: to reduce or subdue.

Verb

subact (third-person singular simple present subacts, present participle subacting, simple past and past participle subacted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce or subdue.
    • tangible bodies have no pleasure in the consort of air , but endeavour to subact it into a more dense body1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...

Forms of subact

Verb
third-person singular presentsubacts
present participlesubacting
past participlesubacted
pastsubacted
Noun
pluralsubacts

Origin of subact

From Latin subactus, past participle of subigere (“to subdue”).

sub- + act

Questions about subact

What does subact mean?
Subact means to reduce or subdue.
What part of speech is subact?
Subact is a verb.
What is the past tense of subact?
The past tense of subact is subacted.

Words near subact in the dictionary

  1. subacoustic
  2. subacrid
  3. subacrodrome
  4. subacromial
  5. subacrosomal
  6. subact
  7. subacted
  8. subacting
  9. subactinomorphic
  10. subaction
  11. subactions

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