Decompose

Definitions: Decompose

Decompose

Verb

1. Separate into constituent elements or parts, as of chemical substances.

2. Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; of particles.

3. Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decompose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Decompose

Decomposition

Verb: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; (unroll); crumble into dust.

Crosswords: Decompose

If you don't move soon, I'm gonna start to decompose. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Commutative rings whose finitely generated modules decompose (reference)

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Decomposing fish in the hold of a purse seiner. Fish decompose as a result of lack of refrigeration. Although this material is unfit for human consumption, it is used as a base for fishmeal for animal feed.Credit: Fisheries.

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Albanian

dekompozoj, zbërthej (analyse, analyze, break down, crack, demount, diffract, disarticulate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismount, disperse, dissolve, Plumb, pull apart, puzzle out, resolve, take to pieces, unbuckle, unbutton, undo, unfasten, unlock, unnail), tretem (melt, pine, resolve), shpërbëj (diffract, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), kalbem (become rotten, decay, go bad, perish, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏نحل (attenuate, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pervert, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏تعفن (corruption, decay, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, moulder, mouldiness, mustiness, perish, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, rot, sweat), ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтварям се (part), разнищвам (disentangle, pick, tease, unravel), разлагам на съставните части, разлагам (analyse, analyze, break down, contaminate, degrade, disintegrate, dissolve, molder, putrefy, resolve, scan), гния (corrupt, decay, fester, languish, putrefy, rot), анализирам (analyse, analyze, break down, criticize, dissect, process, resolve). (various references)

Chinese 

分解 (break down, resolve). (various references)

Czech

rozložit (diffract, disassemble, disintegrate, distribute, resolve, spread, unfold). (various references)

Danish

soenderdele (to decompose), omsaettes (to decay, to decompose, to rot), kan sønderdeles eksplosivt ved stød,gnidning og voldsom rystelse (friction or concussion, may explosively decompose on shock), forraadne (to decay, to decompose, to rot), cementitten ville derimod spaltes;dette kan resultere i en afkulning som foerer til dannelsen af interkrystallinske revner,der vil betyde emnets oedelaeggelse (otherwise the cementite would decompose and lead to decarburisation, so that grain boundary cracks would be formed and the material would fail). (various references)

Dutch

verteren (consume, digest, pay out, spend, to decay, to decompose, to digest, to rot, use up), verrotten (putrefy, rot, to decay, to decompose, to rot), organische chemicaliën, zoals gechloreerde koolwaterstoffen, waartoe bijvoorbeeld DDT behoort, zijn slechts langzaam bio-afbreekbaar en leiden tot een hogere verontreinigingsgraad van het afvalwater (for example ) can only slowly decompose biologically and result in a high waste water content in rivers, organic chemicals such as chlorinated hydrocarbons ( one of which is DDT), ontleden (analyse, analyze, anatomise, decomposition, dissect, to decompose), kan explosief ontleden bij schokken,wrijving of stoten (friction or concussion, may explosively decompose on shock), het cementiet daarentegen zou ontmengen wat tot ontkoling leidt,waardoor interkristallijne breuk ontstaat en de constructie faalt (otherwise the cementite would decompose and lead to decarburisation, so that grain boundary cracks would be formed and the material would fail). (various references)

Farsi 

متلاشی شدن (Collapse, Crackup), تجزیه کردن (Abstract, Analyze, Breakdown, Comminute, Dismember, Liberate), ازهم پاشیدن (Burst, Disintegrate, Dissipate). (various references)

Finnish

mädännyttää (cause to rot), hajottaa ainesosiinsa (break). (various references)

French

décomposer, se décomposer (to decay, to decompose). (various references)

German

zerlegen (analyse, analyze, break down, carve, carve up, cut up, depacketize, disassemble, dismantle, disperse, dissect, divide, joint, quarter, quartering, reduce, resolve, separate, share, strip down, take apart, take down, take to pieces, to analyse, to carve, to decompose, to depacketize, to disassemble, to disjoint, to dismember, to disperse, to unravel). (various references)

Greek 

σαπίζω (damp off, decay, molder, mortify, moulder, putrefy, rot, to decay, to moulder, to rot), αποσυνθέτω (disintegrate, dismantle). (various references)

Hebrew 

למקמק (rot), לפרק (break, crack, disassemble, dismantle, take apart, take down, take to pieces), ל�"פרי�" לחלקים (break down). (various references)

Hungarian

szétbont (to decompose, to disassemble, to uncouple, to unfold, unfold), szétbomlik (disintegrate, to come undone, to decompose). (various references)

Indonesian

mengurai, memisah-misahkan, memisah (dissever), membusuk (putrefy, rot). (various references)

Italian

decomporsi (decay, to decay, to decompose, to moulder, to rot), decomporre (decay, disband, disintegrate, disperse, dissociate, dissolve, rot), scomporsi, scomporre (break up, disassemble, discompose, disjoint, dismember, to dismember, to unravel), scomponibilit� (disarrangement), putrefare (go bad, putrefy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腐爛 (ulcerate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふら�" (decomposition, hatching, incubation, space without columns, ulcerate, ulceration). (various references)

Korean 

궤란하십시�". (various references)

Manx

loaughey (canker, decay, decomposition, rot), jeechummey (decomposition). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecomposeday

Portuguese

decompor-se (putrefy, rot, to decompose), decompor (abash, analyse, decompound, derange, to dismember, to unravel). (various references)

Romanian

descompune în pãrţi componente, descompune (analyse, analyze, crumble, disintegrate, dissolve, resolve, rot), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), se descompune (decay, disintegrate, fall, fester, putrefy), putrezi (damp off, decay, fester, putrefy, ret, rot), face sã putrezeascã (decay), analiza (analyse, analyze, anatomize, assay, canvass, consider, dissect, examine, parse, review, test). (various references)

Russian 

разлагаться (corrupt, decay, putrefy), гнить (decay, putrefied, putrefy, putrefying, rot), анализировать (analyse, analyses, analyze, anatomize, dissect, trace down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razložiti (disassemble, explain, resolve), istruliti (putrefy, rot). (various references)

Spanish

descomponer (break down, decompound, disarrange, discompose, go bad, rot, to dismember, to unravel). (various references)

Swedish

upplösas (disband, dissolve, disunite), upplösa (break up, disband, disintegrate, dismiss, disorganize, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, sissolve, wind up). (various references)

Turkish

dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), dağılmak (adjourn, be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, splinter, spread, straggle), ayrıştırmak (dissociate, distil, distill, extricate, separate), ayrışmak (dissociate, resolve, separate), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil). (various references)

Ukranian 

розкладати на складові частини (unscramble), розбирати (analyse, analyze, decipher, demount, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dissect, overhaul, spell), розпадатися (crumble, disjoin, fall apart, shred), гнити (decay, fester, putrefy, rot), аналізувати (analyse, analyze, anatomize, canvass). (various references)

liquescens, liquescent, liquescit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "decompose": decomposed, decomposer, decomposers, decomposes. (additional references)

Words containing "decompose": undecomposed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decompose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decompact, dicompose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: composed.

-2 letters: comedos, compose, scooped.

-3 letters: comedo, comose, comped, compos, cooeed, cooees, cooped, depose, epodes, mopeds, scoped, speedo.

-4 letters: cedes, cepes, codes, coeds, comes, compo, comps, cooed, cooee, coops, coped, copes, copse, decos, deems, deeps, demes, demos, domes, dooms, dopes, epode, meeds, modes, moods, mooed, moose, moped, mopes, pedes, poems, pomes, poods, posed, scoop, scope, sodom, speed, spode.

-5 letters: cede, cees, cepe, ceps, code, cods, coed, come, comp, coop, coos, cope, cops, deco, deem, deep, dees, deme, demo, docs, does, dome, doms, doom, dope, dose, emes, epos, meed, mocs, mode, mods, mood, moos, mope, mops, odes, oops, oped, opes, pecs, peds, peed, pees, peso, poco, pods, poem, pome, poms, pood, pose, scop, seed, seem, seep, seme, some, spec, sped.

+1 letter: decomposed, decomposer, decomposes, recomposed.

+2 letters: decomposers.

+3 letters: composedness, decomposable, undecomposed.

+4 letters: decompression.

+5 letters: composednesses, decompensation, decompressions, indecomposable, overcompressed.

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