subduct

American  

[suhb-duhkt] / səbˈdʌkt /

verb (used with object)

1. to take away; subtract.

2. to withdraw; remove.

3. Geology. (of acrustal plate ) to collide with (a denser plate), drawing it down and overriding it, along the juncture of the two plates.

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verb (used without object)

1. Geology. (of acrustal plate ) to slide beneath a less dense plate as a consequence of the two plates’ colliding.

subduct British  

/ səbˈdʌkt /

verb

1. physiol to draw or turn (the eye, etc) downwards

2. rare to take away; deduct

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Other Word Forms

• unsubducted adjective

Etymology

Origin of subduct

First recorded in 1550–60; from Latin subductus, past participle of subdūcere “to draw up, withdraw”

Example Sentences

"It had been assumed that faults follow the leading edge of the subducting slab, but this example deviates from that," Materna said.

From Science Daily

It ruptured at a depth of about 125 kilometers beneath the surface, inside the subducting tectonic plate itself.

From Science Daily

Rock from the subducting plates turns to magma when it reaches the mantle, creating hot spots that, over millennia, melt through the crust and break through as lava, forming volcanoes.

From Literature

These can provide information as to whether the carbon originates from a plant or from the atmosphere or was released from a subducted rock.

From Science Daily

While we can see a subducted plate in the mantle underneath it, almost no further movement is currently happening.

From Science Daily