Usually means: Form or compose the fundamental elements.
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  1. constitute: Merriam-Webster
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  3. constitute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. constitute: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Constitute, constitute: Wordnik
  7. constitute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. constitute: Wiktionary
  9. constitute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. constitute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. constitute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. constitute: Dictionary.com
  13. constitute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. constitute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Constitute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. constitute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. constitute: Rhymezone
  18. constitute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. constitute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. constitute: FreeDictionary.org
  21. constitute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. constitute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. constitute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. constitute: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. constitute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constitute: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constitute: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (constitute)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To set up; to establish; to enact.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make up; to compose; to form.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An established law.

Similar:
appoint, establish, nominate, comprise, represent, institute, make, be, make up, form, more...

Opposite:
dismantle, disassemble, destroy, dissolve, disintegrate

Types:
physical, mental, social, political, economic, geographical, historical, legal, ethical, moral, more...

Phrases:
few words that constitute a, to constitute in entirety, constitute now, constitute made up of, component comprise constitute, more...
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Similar:
appoint, establish, nominate, comprise, represent, institute, make, be, make up, form, more...

Opposite:
dismantle, disassemble, destroy, dissolve, disintegrate

Types:
physical, mental, social, political, economic, geographical, historical, legal, ethical, moral, more...

Phrases:
few words that constitute a, to constitute in entirety, constitute now, constitute made up of, component comprise constitute, more...



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