comprises

VERB

make up, consist of

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amount to compose constitute contain cover encompass form hold include involve span

STRONG

compass comprehend embody embrace encircle enclose engross incorporate subsume

WEAK

add up to be composed of be contained in sum up take in

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abandon destroy exclude neglect ruin

STRONG

let go reject release unloose

WEAK

except fail fall short lack need want

Example Sentences

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In general, the looser Holgate's approach is to beachscapes, moonrises and waterfalls, the better.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2012

Thus he has "watched" ancient sun-and moonrises over the far-flung monuments and art works of ancient man.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a name known and remembered wherever there are moonrises and fireflies, smoke against the sunset, apple-trees in bloom—all the everyday lovely things people forget to see unless there are poets to remind them...

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

Dum always has descriptions of sunsets and moonrises and figures against the sky—how things look, in fact.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

What glorious landscape views and ocean moonrises, what freedom, what fresh, airy delight in young life and strength!

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)