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decompressing
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. relieving pressure [syn: decompression ] [ant: compression ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decompress English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
decompressing \decompressing\ n. 1. the process of experiencing decompression ; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure. Syn: decompression.
Usage examples of decompressing.
By decompressing nine we'd save the air it held, when the hatch to eight was opened.
Sooner or later we'd have to go to the surface and that meant decompressing on the way up, the amount of decompression time depending on the depth attained and the length of time spent there.
When it ended, massively, in a great shoaling transit, a leap of decompressing force, they whispered in each other's ear, wordlessly, breathing odors and raw heat, small gusts of love.
We had six divers in a barometric pressure chamber, decompressing after a hundred-meter dive to a Nazi sub loaded with gold.
This was the power of her physical presence, of these nameless spins and tremors, that she was a mind and body able to empty out and in some decompressing play of painful craft eventually to refill herself, or so it seemed to those who watched as now the sheet completely parted, woman no longer rolling, face down on the twisted sheet, arms still bent up and tucked under her now.