compound

compound is a 8-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
2. transitive verb. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
3. transitive verb. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
4. transitive verb. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
5. transitive verb. To compose; to constitute.
6. transitive verb. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
7. intransitive verb. To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
8. transitive verb. Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
9. noun. That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
10. noun. A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.
11. noun. an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
12. noun. a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
13. noun. (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
14. verb. put or add together

    "combine resources"

    Synonyms: combine

15. verb. make more intense, stronger, or more marked, "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"

    "The efforts were intensified"

    "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"

    Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify

16. verb. combine so as to form a whole; mix

    "compound the ingredients"

    Synonyms: combine

17. verb. create by mixing or combining
18. verb. calculate principal and interest
19. adjective. composed of more than one partcompound flower heads"

    "compound leaves are composed of several lobes;"

20. adjective. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

    "coral is a colonial organism"

    Synonyms: colonial

21. adjective. consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts

    "soap is a compound substance"

    "housetop is a compound word"

Synonyms

combine, deepen, heighten, intensify, colonial

Common word forms

compounds, compounded, compounder, compounding, compoundable, compoundness

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