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compose
verb
Make up plans or basic details for
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verb
Make up plans or basic details for
“Frame a policy”
verb
Put together out of existing material
“Compile a list”
verb
Produce a literary work
“She composed a poem”
verb
Write music
“Beethoven composed nine symphonies”
verb
Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
“She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult”
verb
Form the substance of
“Greed and ambition composed his personality”
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Frame a policy
Compile a list
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels
Beethoven composed nine symphonies
She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult
Greed and ambition composed his personality
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