compose synonyms

compose

v.

  1. To be the parts or the ingredients

    constitute, comprise, make up, form, be an adjunct, go into the making of, enter into, merge into, go into, be a component of, be an ingredient of, be an element of, be a portion of, belong to, consist of, be made of, be compounded of; see also comprise, include 1.

  2. To give form

    make, fashion, put together; see form 1.

  3. To create

    write, indite, pen, author, draft, devise, produce, arrange, score, orchestrate, fabricate, formulate, prepare, design, conceive, imagine, make up, originate, poeticize, turn out, draw up, put together, concoct, dash off; see also create 2, invent 1, 2, produce 2, write 1.

    Antonyms blot out, cancel*, erase. *

  4. To prepare for printing

    set up, set type, cast, make up; see form 1.

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