Pronounced: PUH-kuh, adj
Notes: I’ve run across this word in reading, and had an idea of the meaning, but I also found the background interesting. Do you know the meaning?
Yesterday’s word
The word subduct means “to push or move below something”
Background / Comments
The word comes from Latin subducere (to draw up, withdraw, remove); the word is made up of sub- (below) and ducere (to draw, lead)
First usage
The word goes back to the mid-1500s
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