Antonyms for decompose


Grammar : Verb
Spell : dee-kuhm-pohz
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdi kəmˈpoʊz


Definition of decompose

Origin :
  • 1750s, "to separate into components," from de- "opposite of" + compose. Sense of "putrefy" is first recorded 1777. Related: Decomposed; decomposing.
  • verb rot, break up
  • verb analyze by taking apart
Example sentences :
  • When the snow melted it looked like blood, as the red particles do not decompose.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose.
  • Extract from : « The End of Time » by Wallace West
  • You cannot get anything out of iron but iron; you cannot decompose iron.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Tinder-box » by Charles Meymott Tidy
  • By this time the husks will have begun to decompose and darken the kernels.
  • Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
  • But if they do decompose, then it is not into any elements of Matter and physical energy.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • They decompose into some psychic reality, and into some potential will.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • Let it, for example, decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • The puzzle was, that a single cell could not decompose water.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • She had begun now to decompose, and to become, in turn, a plant.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) » by Guy de Maupassant
  • We no longer exorcise a ghost:—we decompose it,—like any other gas.
  • Extract from : « A World of Wonders » by Various

Synonyms for decompose

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