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recompose

recompose verb: to compose or construct again.

Verb

recompose (third-person singular simple present recomposes, present participle recomposing, simple past and past participle recomposed)

  1. (transitive) To compose or construct again.
    • to dissolve and recompose a substance
    • So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107
  2. (transitive) To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.
    • Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Forms of recompose

third-person singular presentrecomposes
present participlerecomposing
past participlerecomposed
pastrecomposed

Origin of recompose

From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.

Questions about recompose

What does recompose mean?
Recompose means to compose or construct again.
What part of speech is recompose?
Recompose is a verb.
What is the past tense of recompose?
The past tense of recompose is recomposed.

Words near recompose in the dictionary

  1. recomplications
  2. recomplied
  3. recomplies
  4. recomply
  5. recomplying
  6. recompose
  7. recomposed
  8. recomposer
  9. recomposers
  10. recomposes
  11. recomposing

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