verb
- Form the substance of.
- usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
- Write music.
- usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
- synonyms: write
- Produce a literary work.
- usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
- Put together out of existing material.
- usage: "compile a list"
- synonyms: compile
- Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
- usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
- Make up plans or basic details for.
- usage: "frame a policy"
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