Antonyms for compose
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuhm-pohz |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpoʊz |
Definition of compose
Origin :- c.1400, compousen, from Old French composer "put together, arrange, write" a work (12c.), from com- "with" (see com-) + poser "to place," from Late Latin pausare "to cease, lay down," ultimately from Latin ponere "to put, place" (see position (n.)). Meaning influenced in Old French by componere (see composite). Musical sense is from 1590s. Related: Composed; composing.
- verb be part of construction
- verb create writing, artwork, or music
- verb calm, bring under control
- In the nearer ranks we may discern the variety of ingredients that compose the mass.
- Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It need hardly be said that in any case it was not Handel's practice to compose his works on an organ.
- Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
- Little Dorrit was deeply anxious that he should lie down to compose himself.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- Sometimes all the bells which compose a peal tell their various uses.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend I shall receive as a favour.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- Let us then, my Imogen, compose ourselves to the sedateness of despair.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- Miss Wedderburn, will you try to compose yourself, and listen to something I have to say?
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- He alone can conceive and compose who sees the whole at once before him.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- In the course of my life I have often had intimations in dreams 'that I should compose music.'
- Extract from : « Phaedo » by Plato
- Apollo was also bidden to heal their wounds and compose their forms.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
Synonyms for compose
- adjust
- allay
- appease
- arrange
- assuage
- author
- balm
- bang out
- be an adjunct
- be an element of
- be made of
- becalm
- belong to
- build
- cast
- check
- clef
- coin a phrase
- collect
- comfort
- comp
- compound
- comprise
- conceive
- consist of
- console
- constitute
- construct
- contain
- contrive
- control
- cook up
- cool
- design
- devise
- discover
- draw up
- dream up
- ease
- ease up
- enter in
- fabricate
- fashion
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- fudge together
- ghost
- ghostwrite
- go into
- hold in
- imagine
- indite
- invent
- knock off
- knock out
- lessen
- let up
- lull
- make
- make up
- merge in
- mitigate
- moderate
- modulate
- note down
- orchestrate
- originate
- pacify
- pen
- placate
- poetize
- produce
- push pencil
- put down
- put pen to paper
- quell
- quiet
- re-collect
- reconcile
- regulate
- rein
- relax
- repress
- resolve
- restrain
- score
- scribble
- script
- set type
- set up
- settle
- simmer down
- slacken
- smother
- soften
- solace
- soothe
- still
- suppress
- temper
- time
- tranquilize
- tune down
- turn out
- whip up
- write
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