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Decomposed

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de·com·pose  (dkm-pz)
v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es
v.tr.
1. To separate into components or basic elements.
2. To cause to rot.
v.intr.
1. To become broken down into components; disintegrate.
2. To decay; putrefy. See Synonyms at decay.
decom·posa·bili·ty n.
decom·posa·ble adj.
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The stone was thus partly protected from the weather, though greatly decomposed.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
In their turn, again, these rings of cosmical matter, excited by a rotary motion about the central mass, would have been broken up and decomposed into secondary nebulosities, that is to say, into planets.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
In the sunlight her black costume looked greenish, with here and there threadbare patches where the stuff seemed decomposed by age into a velvety, black, furry state.
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