recompose
Americanverb (used with object)
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to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
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to restore to composure or calmness.
verb
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to restore to composure or calmness
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to arrange or compose again; reform
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Etymology
Origin of recompose
Example Sentences
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In the weeks and months after the 9/11 attacks, New York City began to slowly recompose itself.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020
It was going on forever, and at a point I thought I should recompose and go look at where the ball actually is.
From Slate ● May 14, 2019
EC’s Taylor Reed says it took him a full day to recompose himself after wandering through the squalid mess.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2017
In the corridor, a little sing-song voice is calling: "Pietro! Pietro!" and I watch the doctor of Lampedusa hurriedly recompose himself to become once again the magical doctor of Disneyland.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2016
Joon’s face twitches as he tries to recompose himself, tries to relax the corners of his eyes and focus on something over Apa’s shoulder.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
As the movie ended and the destabilized audience recomposed itself, Garland and cast members Dunst, Spaeny and Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, who plays another reporter, took to the stage for a Q&A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Travel restrictions made an accidental sleeper of the Torlonia family’s Greek and Roman sculptures: dozens of portrait busts, a hirsute billy goat reclining like a love god, a shattered Hercules recomposed from a hundred shards.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Zombies don’t have to be bat-bitten, red-eyed raveners, sinister and recomposed.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2020
King recomposed herself, then came back and nailed that 100kg lift on her final attempt.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
“Hey, Cameron,” Irene said, seeming totally recomposed, or maybe she hadn’t ever lost composure.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
We have achieved something very important, which is recomposing our investment matrix.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
That’s especially so, he said, when we combine symbols while composing and recomposing pieces of knowledge, which helps us to generalize.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Ms Spade draws a distinction between decomposing and recomposing.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2020
Possibly having been transformed into black smoke and sucked through a socket before recomposing in human form has played havoc with his cognitive skills.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
"We were always a well-favored fam'ly," said John, recomposing himself.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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