Synonyms for constitute
ˈkɒn stɪˌtut, -ˌtyutcon·sti·tute

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1. constituteverb

   Synonyms:
   form, enact, make up, compose, establish

2. constituteverb

   To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

   Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.-- Jeremy Taylor.

   Synonyms:
   make up, establish, compose, enact, form

3. constituteverb

   To make up; to compose; to form.

   Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.--Johnson.

   Synonyms:
   establish, enact, make up, compose, form

4. constituteverb

   To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

   Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.-- William Wordsworth.

   Synonyms:
   form, make up, enact, compose, establish

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1. constitute

   Make is essentially causative; to the idea of cause all its various senses may be traced (compare synonyms for CAUSE). To make is to cause to exist, or to cause to exist in a certain form or in certain relations; the word thus includes the idea of create, as in Gen. i, 31, "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Make includes also the idea of compose, constitute; as, the parts make up the whole. Similarly, to cause a voluntary agent to do a certain act is to make him do it, or compel him to do it, compel fixing the attention more on the process, make on the accomplished fact. Compare COMPEL; DO; INFLUENCE; (make better) AMEND; (make haste) QUICKEN; (make known) ANNOUNCE; AVOW; CONFESS; (make prisoner) ARREST; (make up) ADD; (make void) CANCEL.

   See synonyms for ABOLISH; BREAK; DEMOLISH.

   Synonyms:
   become, bring about, bring into being, bring to pass, cause, compel, compose, constrain, construct, create, do, effect, establish, execute, fabricate, fashion, force, frame, get, make, make out, make up, manufacture, occasion, perform, reach, render, require, shape

   Preposition:
   Make of, out of, or from certain materials, into a certain form, for a certain purpose or person; made with hands, by hand; made by a prisoner, with a jack-knife.

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1. constitute

   Synonyms:
   form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute

   Antonyms:
   dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. constitute, represent, make up, comprise, beverb

   form or compose

   "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"

   Synonyms:
   play, follow, embody, act, found, live, institute, even up, make up, compensate, fabricate, appoint, establish, equal, symbolize, even out, present, lay out, exist, make, pay, incorporate, typify, be, exemplify, form, cost, reconcile, stand for, correct, invent, consist, plant, catch up with, manufacture, counterbalance, defend, represent, stage, conciliate, comprise, patch up, nominate, even off, name, symbolise, interpret, cook up, correspond, personify, contain, map, pay off, settle

2. appoint, name, nominate, constituteverb

   create and charge with a task or function

   "nominate a committee"

   Synonyms:
   found, form, put up, list, appoint, identify, represent, be, bring up, mention, name, describe, advert, plant, put forward, comprise, establish, key out, propose, institute, diagnose, call, charge, discover, make up, distinguish, cite, refer, nominate, key, make

3. form, constitute, makeverb

   to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"

   "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"

   Synonyms:
   wee-wee, take, hit, bring in, organise, institute, draw, cook, have, piddle, hold, mold, piss, do, reach, earn, stimulate, get to, shit, defecate, spring, lay down, name, pass water, comprise, mould, progress to, create, crap, take a shit, pretend, make water, gain, ready, found, imprint, establish, be, realize, make up, give, attain, pull in, induce, form, pee, make, wee, plant, ca-ca, get, take shape, prepare, micturate, shape, take in, score, build, make believe, forge, throw, arrive at, pee-pee, relieve oneself, spend a penny, represent, puddle, take a crap, clear, appoint, produce, nominate, organize, take a leak, take form, cause, urinate, work, fix, realise, stool, seduce, construct

4. establish, found, plant, constitute, instituteverb

   set up or lay the groundwork for

   "establish a new department"

   Synonyms:
   engraft, demonstrate, name, ground, implant, set up, install, be, set, base, found, institute, instal, launch, build, appoint, imbed, comprise, prove, represent, form, give, plant, shew, lay down, embed, establish, make up, bring, nominate, make, show

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1. constituteverb

   Synonyms:
   form, compose, make, make up, enter into the composition of

2. constituteverb

   Synonyms:
   appoint, depute, empower

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1. List of paraphrases for "constitute":

   represent, pose, are, form, constitutes, comprise, be, provide, constituted, grantor

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1. Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurray:

   There is substantial evidence that the construction of the proposed pipeline will not constitute a public convenience and necessity.

2. Ted Cruz:

   This bill would constitute a federal government takeover of elections. It would constitute a massive power grab by Democrats.

3. Junius:

   One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

4. Charles Whitehead:

   The optics are bad, but not everything that looks bad is criminal, cornell Law School's unclear whether trading based on the White House's private release of factual information, that was otherwise publicly obtainable, would constitute insider trading, even if White House was publicly contesting that information.

5. Human Rights Watch:

   Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.