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  1. transitive verb To combine so as to form a whole; mix.
  2. transitive verb To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts: pharmacists compounding prescriptions.
  3. transitive verb To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust.
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  • Their racing about the compound was a pleasure as well. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Along one side of the compound was a row of mules, tied by the heel with their rumps toward the wall, squealing for breakfast, which was being brought by naked boys, and by a bhisti, who poured water into buckets from a goatskin bag. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • The main part of the compound was a large rectangle of intermittent single-story adobe houses, connected by an outer wall about eave height. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • As a result, the compound was almost always packed at a time when other mines were filling the air with lamentations concerning the wickedness of the Matabele and Mashona, who would not take up the black man's burden, as represented by the duty of using a shovel or hammering a drill in a badly ventilated working, and sustaining their strength on practically uneatable mealie porridge. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • The researchers say the study provides the first evidence that this compound is the major source of the health benefit associated with virgin olive oils, which contain increased levels of DHPEA-EDA compared to other oils. —  Diabetes News from dLife.com
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  1. Alteration of Middle English compounen, from Old French componre, compondre, to put together, from Latin compōnere; see component.
  2. Alteration of Malay kampong, village.

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  1. As in expound and propound, which have the same radical element, the d is excrescent after n, as in round, sound, hind, lend, and the vulgar drownd, swound, etc. (the d being naturally developed from the n by dissimilated gemination, but partly due, perhaps, in this case, to the Middle English past participle compouned, English adjective compound); from Middle English compounen, later componen (the later English compone being based directly on the L.), from Old French compondre, cumpundre, arrange, direct from rare, the usual word being composer: see compose), = Provencal compondre, componre = Spanish componer = Portuguese compor = Italian componere, comporre, from Latin componere, conponere, past participle compositus, conpositus, put, place, lay, bring, or set together, etc., in a great variety of applications, from com-, together, + ponere, put, place: see com- and ponent, and cf. expound, propound, compone, depone, propone, etc., and see compose, which is peculiarly related to compound. Cf. compound, a. Hence (from Latin componere) also component, composite, compositor, compost, compote, etc.
  2. from Middle English compouned, past participle of compounen, mix, compound: see the verb.
  3. from Malay campong, an inclosure. According to another view, a corruption of Portuguese companha, a yard or court, properly a suite, company: see company, n.
 

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