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decompose
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment 2 (context intransitive English) to rot, decay or putrefy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decompose \De`com*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decomposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Decomposing .] [Cf. F. d['e]composer. Cf. Discompose .] To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of ...
Usage examples of decompose.
Slags are for the most part decomposed by boiling with aqua regia, but it will be found more convenient and accurate to first extract with acids and then to treat the residue as an insoluble silicate.
Fillet of sole amandine was tasteless, decomposed, and swimming in broth, and the almonds had not browned.
Phalaris and Avena the first true leaf, which is bright green and no doubt decomposes carbonic acid, exhibits hardly a trace of heliotropism.
His method is to use pure prismatic colors on the principle that color is light in a decomposed form, and that its proper juxtaposition on canvas will recompose into pure light again.
Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang--a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese.
The genii of the elements will render up the sacred materials intrusted to them, and rebuild the decomposed bodies.
A breeze from the coast mingled the odor of sea wrack and wet clam mud with the familiar smell of decomposing garbage and tires soaking up the sun.
I could get from Cambridge was that trimethylamine was responsible for the smell of decomposing semen.
A faulty mortality switch on its collar prevented biologists from finding the body before it decomposed.
The centauroids, on the other hand, were fascinated by the decomposing foodstuffs in the composters.
If they returned to the culvert to see if they could detect her scent in the cleaner air beyond the decomposing raccoon, she would be out of the downdraught that swept the main line, and they might not smell her.
The girders and beams and cross-supports might not have been wood and metal but bony accretions of calcium and other minerals, the last remains of a decomposed leviathan washed up on the lonely beach of an ancient sea.
A mummified owlbear opened its maw in an endless scream, and several decomposing hobgoblins clawed at their bonds, shriveled faces twisted into masks of horror.
Apparently, they discovered a badly decomposed head during a search of some railroad tunnels yesterday afternoon.
He was the first to produce cerium by decomposing its oxide using potassium vapor.