compose

About 3.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make something by merging parts. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.

2. verb To make up the whole; to constitute.

   A church is composed of its members.

3. verb To comprise.
4. verb To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.

   The orator composed his speech over the week prior.

5. verb To calm; to free from agitation.

   Try to compose your thoughts.

6. verb To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
7. verb To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
8. verb To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

Similar words

compile draw up frame outline indite write pen composition comprise form

Often followed by

the a it an his and them their this

Word family

composed composes composing