COMPOSES

Form the substance of

Example: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"

Write music

Example: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"

• write  8

• create  8
• make  10

• counterpoint  16
• set to music
• arrange  8
• set  3
• • score  7
  • melodise  11
  • melodize  20
  • harmonise  14
  • harmonize  23
  • instrument  12
  • instrumentate
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Produce a literary work

Example: "She composed a poem"

• indite  7
• pen  5
• write  8

• create verbally

• draw  8
• lyric  10
• write about
• write of
• • write on
  • profile  12
  • paragraph  17
  • paragraph  17
  • dash off
  • fling off
  • knock off
  • scratch off
  • toss off
  • rewrite  10
  • write copy
  • adopt  8
  • dramatise  12
  • dramatize  21
  • draft  9
  • outline  7
  • poetise  9
  • poetize  18
  • verse  8
  • versify  16
  • author  9
  • annotate  8
  • footnote  11
  • cite  6
  • reference  14
  • write out
  • write up
  • script  10
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Put together out of existing material

Example: "Compile a list"

• compile  13

• make  10

• cobble together
• cobble up
• anthologise  15
• anthologize  24
• • catalog  10
  • catalogue  12
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Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet

Example: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"

Make up plans or basic details for

Example: "Frame a policy"

• draw up
• frame  10