decomposed

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The word Quickens requires in like manner to be altered,--decomposed, as it were,--and reduced to its original and genuine sound, ere we can discern its real meaning.

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  1. In a state of decomposition.
  2. In ornithology, separated: specifically said of a feather the web of which is decompounded by disconnection of the barbs, or of a bundle of feathers, as those of the crest, which stand or fall apart from one another: used like decompound in botany.

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  • But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there The Reis telephone was brought to America by Dr. P. H. Van der Weyde, a well-known physicist in his day, and was exhibited by him before a technical audience at Cooper Union, New York, in 1868, and described shortly after in the technical press. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Very useful in the event of much-decomposed or completely skeletal remains being found. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • Gases were released while he decomposed, and they stretched the skin and broke through. —  RustyNail
  • Some of the products are decomposed, and the remaining wastewater goes into a drain field to continue to breakdown. —  More Hip Than Hippie Podcast
  • Both bodies were decomposed, a spokesman from the medical examiner's said. —  KHOU.com Astros
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