COMPRISED Definition & Meaning

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comprised

[ kuhm-prahyzd ]

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adjective

included or contained:
His write-up of the cancer experiment details the characteristics of all five cohorts and the comprised biopsy reports.
formed, put together, or constituted; made up of a number of different parts or individuals:
These issues are to be addressed by the president of the college in consultation with the newly comprised committee.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of comprise ( def ).

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Origin of comprised¹

comprise ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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Idioms and Phrases

be comprised of. comprise ( def 4 ).

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What I call “The Selena Generation” is comprised of artists who came of age in the years after the singer’s death.

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The panel, comprised of two Republicans and one Democrat, peppered counsel for Griffin, the state Board of Elections and Democratic North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs for around 90 minutes.

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Following the crash, Honduran President Xiomara Castro "immediately activated" the country's emergency committee, comprised of all emergency services including the military, police, fire department, Red Cross and the Ministry of Health.

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As a result, contaminated soil that has been removed during major environmental cleanups or new construction has typically comprised the largest bloc of hazardous waste in California each year.

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The rebel group, mainly comprised of ethnic Tutsis, has been on the march since early 2022, seizing swathes of territory - with the help of up to 4,000 Rwandan troops.

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