Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recompose

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables: re-com-pose
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To compose or construct again.

Transitive verb

verb

To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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 time"
"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."

Etymology

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

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

recomposes (present, singular) recomposing (participle, present) recomposed (participle, past) recomposed (past)

Frequently Paired Words

recomposition

Questions

What does recompose mean?: To compose or construct again.
Where does recompose come from?: From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.

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