compose

Verb

• make up plans or basic details for
  • frame a policy
    

• calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
  • She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult
    

• put together out of existing material
  • compile a list
    

• produce a literary work
  • She composed a poem
    
  • He wrote four novels
    

• write music
  • Beethoven composed nine symphonies
    

• form the substance of
  • Greed and ambition composed his personality
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  frame , draw up , compile , write , pen , indite