v. 25B6; verb
farmers constituted 10 per cent of the population : AMOUNT TO, add up to, account for, form, make up, compose, comprise.
this constitutes a breach of copyright : BE EQUIVALENT TO, be, embody, be tantamount to, be regarded as.
the courts were constituted in 1875 : INAUGURATE, establish, initiate, found, create, set up, start, form, organize, develop; commission, charter, invest, appoint, install, empower.