Words similar to compounded

Example sentences for: compounded

How can you use “compounded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

While the year's first few months are a time of optimism, they say, the end of the year is characterized by pessimism compounded by the onset of winter.
Stirrup has been compounded from the Old English stige `ascent' + rāp .' Anglo-Saxon stirrups were made of rope and were probably used for ascending objects other than horses.
In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.
For instance, take I when compounded with another pronoun or a noun in the objective case, as in: Between you and I ...
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