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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But Denmark were able to recompose themselves and dig in to ensure the victory and a semi-final at Wembley on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
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
I wanted to recompose the music so that it would match that.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
He shut his eyes tight and tried to recompose himself.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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
“The student body will be recomposed over time: some current students will self-select out, others will graduate; we’ll recruit new students who are mission-aligned.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
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
“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
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
The 28-year-old Briton stormed the first set but allowed Sousa back in before recomposing himself in a 6-2 3-6 6-2 6-2 win against the number 32 seed.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2016
It is not by recomposing the evolved with itself that we shall reproduce the evolution of which it is the term.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
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