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recompose

verb

  1. put together again
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.

  1. To compose or construct again.

    to dissolve and recompose a substance

    So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time

  2. To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.

    Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.