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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Origin of recompose
Example Sentences
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McGowan, from Dumbarton, will now need to recompose herself and beat Astan Bathily of Ivory Coast to be in with a shot at a medal.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
Then, after Mussorgsky’s death, his friend Rimsky-Korsakov took it upon himself to reorchestrate, rejigger and sometimes recompose the work to make it more colorful and less idiosyncratic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
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
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
Zombies don’t have to be bat-bitten, red-eyed raveners, sinister and recomposed.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2020
Those laws will hold true for recomposed burials too, but when remains are useable soil, even city-dwellers might find spaces to memorialise the departed.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019
Imagine Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks” recomposed today, with the three late-night diners and counterman all gazing at screens.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2018
“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
And here a faithful analyst of what he sees, yet lifting it withal, unconsciously, inevitably, recomposing, glorifying, Raphael too becomes, of course, a painter of portraits.
From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Pater, Walter
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