Decomposed

Definition: Decomposed

Decomposed

Adjective

1. Broken down or disintegrated by rot; "a badly decomposed body".

Date "decomposed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Decomposed

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Decomposition	Adjective: decomposed; Verb: catalytic, analytical; resolvent, separative, solvent.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Decomposed

English words defined with "decomposed": Antipeptone ♦ biodegradable, bog moss ♦ decompose, decomposition, disintegration ♦ Electrolyzable ♦ Gossan, Gowan, Growan ♦ Hippuric acid, humus ♦ Inogen ♦ Meconidine, molder, moulder ♦ Peat moss ♦ rot ♦ sphagnum, sphagnum moss ♦ Trass ♦ uncorrupted, unspoiled ♦ White light. (references)

Specialty definitions using "decomposed": Anaerobic Digestion ♦ black ore, blom ♦ cell tree, chemical vapour deposition, ConC, cotton rock ♦ Decomposed Petri Net, DPN ♦ iodide process for producing titanium ♦ jeso ♦ lime-soda sinter process ♦ mor, muck soil ♦ naphtha gas, nickel carbonyl ♦ older peat ♦ raw humus, recomposed granite, rotten reef ♦ sluff, surface humus ♦ thermochemical hydrogen production ♦ veid humus ♦ Wold's decomposition theorem. (references)

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Modern Usage: Decomposed

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

It smells more like she decomposed! (My Wife and Kids; writing credit: Pierre Corneille)

Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed. (The Palm Beach Story; writing credit: Preston Sturges)

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

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Commercial Usage: Decomposed

Domain	Title
Books	Cap Handbook for Postmortem Examination of Unidentified Remains: Developing Identification of Well-Preserved, Decomposed, Burned, and Skeletonized re (reference) Foundations and Excavations in Decomposed Rock of the Piedmont Province (Geotechnical Special Publication No 9) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Light Is Decomposed Into Fragments (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Decomposed

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Honduras	After reviewing the evidence, human rights organizations agreed that the bodies were not those of leftist guerrillas killed in the 1980's. Of the four bodies disinterred in 2000, the Public Ministry confirmed that the bodies were too decomposed to allow for DNA testing and a positive identification. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Decomposed

"Decomposed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.56% of the time. "Decomposed" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	60.56%	43	52,181
Adjective (general or positive)	30.99%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (past tense)	8.45%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	71	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Decomposed

Expressions using "decomposed": be decomposed ♦ become decomposed ♦ decomposed Petri Net. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "decomposed": badly-decomposed, half-decomposed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Decomposed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
decomposed granite	49
badly body decomposed	17
body decomposed	11
decomposed	5
decomposed fs granite thirty web	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Decomposed

Language		Translations for "decomposed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏بال (decrepit, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, stale, threadbare, tired, trite, well worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

Chinese		分解 (Decompose, Decomposing, Decomposition, factorise, Factorize, Factorized, Factorizing). (various references)

Danish		rådden (putrid), putrid (putrid), ildelugtende (fetid, putrid). (various references)

Dutch		putridus (putrid). (various references)

Finnish		palanut lanta (decomposed manure, edelmist, fermented manure, rotted manure). (various references)

French		décomposé, putride. (various references)

German		zerlegte (carved, disassembled, dissected). (various references)

Italian		putrido (putrid, rotten). (various references)

Korean		궤란하�". (various references)

Manx		molkit (mortified, putrified, rotted, rotten). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecomposedday

Portuguese		estrume decomposto (decomposed manure, rotted manure). (various references)

Romanian		descompus (distorted, haggard). (various references)

Spanish		pútrido (putrid). (various references)

Swedish		brunnen gödsel (decomposed manure, edelmist, fermented manure, rotted manure). (various references)

Turkish		ayrışmış, çürümüş (black and blue, blue, carious, decayed, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotten, went bad), çözünmüş. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Decomposed

Derivations
	Words ending with "decomposed": undecomposed. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Decomposed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decompiled, decompossed, dicompose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Decomposed"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "decomposed" (pronounced dē'kumpō"zd)
7	-k u m p ō" z d	composed.
6	-u m p ō" z d	reimposed, superimposed.
5	-m p ō" z d	imposed.
4	-p ō" z d	deposed, disposed, exposed, juxtaposed, opposed, overexposed, posed, predisposed, proposed, supposed, transposed, unopposed.
3	-ō" z d	closed, disclosed, dozed, enclosed, foreclosed, hosed, nosed, undisclosed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Decomposed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-m-o-o-p-s"
	-1 letter: decompose.
	-2 letters: composed.
	-3 letters: comedos, compose, decodes, deposed, scooped, seedpod.
	-4 letters: comedo, comose, comped, compos, cooeed, cooees, cooped, decode, demode, demoed, depose, dodoes, doomed, eddoes, epodes, mopeds, scoped, speedo.
	-5 letters: ceded, cedes, cepes, coded, codes, coeds, comes, compo, comps, cooed, cooee, coops, coped, copes, copse, decos, deeds, deems, deeps, demes, demos, dodos, domed, domes, dooms, doped, dopes, dosed, epode, meeds, modes, moods, mooed, moose, moped, mopes, pedes, poems, pomes, poods, posed, scoop, scope, sodom, speed, spode.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-m-o-o-p-s"
	+2 letters: undecomposed.
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