decompose
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- If something decomposes it changes back into what it was made from. The things it was made from separate from each other. This things are most often chemicals.
- If you decompose something you separate the things it was made from. You change it back into those things.
- Water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen.
- Don't try to decompose my thoughts into other motives.
- If something decomposes it rots.