Crossword-Solution: DECOMPOSE 9 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
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.
Decompose v. i. To become resolved or returned from existing
combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

We have 42 clues for the answer “DECOMPOSE”

Clue Answers
separate into constituent elements or parts 1 answer
SEPARATE into constituent parts 1 answer
Resolve into constituent parts. 1 answer
RESOLVE into constituent parts or elements 1 answer
Musicians never retire, they just __ 1 answer
Break down chemically 3 answers
anatomise 5 answers
Fester 8 answers
mildew 8 answers
factorise 9 answers
DELIQUESCE 11 answers
moulder 13 answers
putrefy 15 answers
Fall apart 16 answers
Canker 19 answers
Dissect 20 answers
Corrode 22 answers
Break down 26 answers
ANALYSE 26 answers
Erode 34 answers
Contaminate 37 answers
denature 41 answers
dilapidate 42 answers
Disintegrate 43 answers
Deteriorate 48 answers
perish 50 answers
Fall (off) 51 answers
Degrade 52 answers
Eat 56 answers
make unfit 57 answers
Simplify 57 answers
Crumble 57 answers
Rot 58 answers
break up 65 answers
Decay 65 answers
Dissolve 70 answers
disunite 71 answers
dismantle 72 answers
Reduce 72 answers
disjoin 75 answers
Spoil 78 answers
Detach 80 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DECOMPOSE (5)

Fielding tells us as much as he thought necessary to account for the actions of his creatures; he thought that each of these actions could be decomposed on the spot into a few simple personal elements, as we decompose a force in a question of abstract dynamics.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
What is more, once these things wore out, they could be discarded just as they were, for they would in time decompose and return to the soil.
Down with the Cities Tadashi Nakashima 1996
Even the carcass of a dead animal that is left exposed upon the ground to decompose does not moulder away by the usual process of decay, but what is left of the body after the hungry buzzards and coyotes have finished their feast, dries up into a mummy that lasts for years.
Arizona Sketches Joseph A. Munk 1996
When the drum rotated, the friction of the pad carried the vibrating arm forward, but an electrical impulse coming over the line would decompose the chemical solution with which the drum was moistened, causing an effect similar to lubrication, and thus allowing the pad to slip backward freely in response to the pull of its retractile spring.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
Most of the moving parts of the mechanism are comparatively heavy, and unless the current is of the proper strength to move them, the instrument is dumb, while in Bain's the solution requires a certain power of current to decompose it and leave the stain.
Heroes of the Telegraph J. Munro 1997

Quotes with DECOMPOSE (3)

I guess I think differently than most folks. I think the reason the world is a mystical, enchanting place, is because of the cycle of life. My body will decompose, but maybe some little element of it will be transformed into a particle of dirt, over years and years, and then a glorious flower will be nurtured by this particle of dirt. Then this flower will nourish a random bumblebee, who in turn will be eaten by a raven. So, in some future life, I'll be able to fly. I look fo…
E. M. Crane
The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.
Neal Shusterman Challenger Deep
If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by fish or other scavengers. The bones would eventually sink down to the seabed and either be slowly buried by marine silt or broken down further over the years, but the flesh would one way or another eventually become water, which would evaporate into clouds and then rain down upon the earth once again to become plants and flowers. The flowers in your gard…
Karl Wiggins Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1959–2019).