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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