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Synonyms for compounded

Grammar : Verb
Spell : adjective kom-pound, kom-pound; noun kom-pound; verb kuh m-pound, kom-pound
Phonetic Transcription : adjective ˈkɒm paʊnd, kɒmˈpaʊnd; noun ˈkɒm paʊnd; verb kəmˈpaʊnd, ˈkɒm paʊnd

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Définition of compounded

Origin :
  • "to put together," late 14c., compounen "to mix, combine," from Old French compondre, componre "arrange, direct," from Latin componere "to put together" (see composite). The -d appeared 1500s in English on model of expound, etc. Related: Compounded; compounding.
  • verb mix, combine
  • verb make difficult; complicate
Example sentences :
  • But no single generation is compounded all of fact or all of dream.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • "I am compounded of sweet courtesy," he informed her modestly.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • It was all of them, dozens of them, compounded year upon year upon year.
  • Extract from : « Second Sight » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • The world in which Erik Dorn lived was compounded of many surfaces.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • He didn't give you one single thing to go on; just compounded the confusion.
  • Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • When compounded with white lead, however, the colour has been stated to be destroyed.
  • Extract from : « Field's Chromatography » by George Field
  • He thought they were "compounded" of a certain earth, or calx, and phlogiston.
  • Extract from : « Priestley in America » by Edgar F. Smith
  • They are both mystic and utilitarian, or compounded of the two.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • If a neat wound a man, let the neat be delivered up or compounded for.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • It was of the sort that is compounded in the brain laboratories of egotists, and it worked.
  • Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London

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