Decompress

//diːkəmˈpɹɛs//

"Decompress" in a Sentence (8 examples)

How do I decompress the LZH file?

A bath can help you decompress.

Claudio tried to decompress the folder.

Vacation in the coastal rain forests of North America offers the author a chance to decompress and enjoy the sights, sounds, tastes, smells and textures of nature that have been absent from his life for the past year.

The bad news is we got eight hours in this can blowin' down… And the worse news is, it's gonna take us three weeks to decompress later.

There was a typical reef construction here with large plating corals at deeper depths. Thankfully, again there were many new corals. We decompressed for several minutes before boarding. Then Mike really got sick. He skipped the next dive.

[T]he idea began before lockdown, when he went on holiday to Thailand to decompress from the pressures of life in the music industry.

What does his wife, music teacher Caroline, think about his retiring to a quiet life in Wantage? "I think she's a bit dewy-eyed. She thinks it's going to be nice to spend more time with me. I have to take time to decompress from a job like this for so long, but coming from that to doing nothing would be very unhealthy."

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