verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of decompress form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

decompressiondecompression

Example

More examples

"The station began decompressing."

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