Synonyms for compose

verb

1. To be the parts or the ingredients

   constitute, comprise, make up, form, be an adjunct, go into the making of, enter into, merge into, go into, be a component of, be an ingredient of, be an element of, be a portion of, belong to, consist of, be made of, be compounded of; see also comprise, include 1.

2. To give form

   make, fashion, put together; see form 1.

3. To create

   write, indite, pen, author, draft, devise, produce, arrange, score, orchestrate, fabricate, formulate, prepare, design, conceive, imagine, make up, originate, poeticize, turn out, draw up, put together, concoct, dash off; see also create 2, invent 1, 2, produce 2, write 1.

   Antonyms blot out, cancel*, erase.

4. To prepare for printing

   set up, set type, cast, make up; see form 1.