Definition of decompose

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Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

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Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
Soft :: Soft (superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing..
Invert :: Invert (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10..
Pyrogen :: Pyrogen (n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria..
Meconidine :: Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed..
Decompound :: Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
Unform :: Unform (v. t.) To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake..
Gossan :: Gossan (n.) Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein..
Compost :: Compost (n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap..
Decompose :: Decompose (v. t.) To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..
Unformed :: Unformed (a.) Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed..
Putrefy :: Putrefy (v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Rubble :: Rubble (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash..
Simple :: Simple (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a..
Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates..
Antipeptone :: Antipeptone (n.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice..
Resolver :: Resolver (n.) That which decomposes, or dissolves..
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste..
Electrolyzable :: Electrolyzable (a.) Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity..
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