recompose

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make oneself calm and controlled again

   She paused outside the meeting room to recompose herself.

2. 2
   verb

   to compose, arrange, or form something again in a new or restored way

   The editor had to recompose the damaged page from the original notes.

From re- ‘again’ plus compose, ultimately from Latin componere, ‘to put together.’ The reflexive use, recompose oneself, developed from the idea of restoring one’s inner order.

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