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decompose

 verb
     
Related topics: Biology, Chemistry
de‧com‧pose [intransitive and transitive]
1 to decay or make something decay:
a partially decomposed body
2HC technical to divide into smaller parts, or to make something do this
—decomposition noun [uncountable]
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