Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce the air pressure within a chamber. 2 (context intransitive English) To have the pressure of one's environmental atmosphere reduced.
WordNet
v. decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the air plane" [syn: depressurise, decompress] [ant: pressurize, pressurize]
Usage examples of "depressurize".
His lightsaber was lying over in a corner beside four dead Vagaari who had been in the wrong place when the Dreadnaught broke free and the lobby depressurized.
The emergency doors slid abruptly closed, and fresh air poured into the partially depressurized area.
The auto-elasticized inner suit tightened around him as he depressurized the buggy.
Each, of course, could be depressurized individually and opened to the void through a set of overhead doors.
So the Port Authority depressurized our bay until he handed over the money.
The counterterrorist team has to know how an aircraft pressurizes, how it depressurizes, how the system can be overridden, how to open the escape chutes.
The Marine then made his point by depressurizing the airlock before Peter's door was fully closed, nearly jerking it out of his hand.
Once clear, they could begin the process of depressurizing it so they could safely open the doors to the outside.
After depressurizing the MAT, she then began to thread her way backward, slowly, out of the chaos of the Cerberus.
I have killed the man responsible and partly disabled the plane by depressurizing the cabin.
Suiting up, going over the fifty-one-point PLS checklist, and depressurizing had taken more time than it had in the simulations.
No sooner had the module depressurized than into the rend dropped hundreds of Yuuzhan Vong warriors, disgorged from landing craft and outfitted with armor and the star-shaped breathing creatures known as gnulliths.
By using a force field system, they could avoid constantly pressurizing and depressurizing the chamber-no small issue in a chamber this size.
He checked his blue RDY light to the right of the heads-up display, meaning that the slipway door was open, the fuel system was depressurized, the slipway lights were on, and the system ready for refueling.
The astronaut was helped into his full pressure suit, with his biosensors attached and his rectal thermometer inserted, and then placed into the gondola, in a contoured seat molded for his body, whereupon all the wires, hoses, and microphones he would have in actual flight were hooked up, and the gondola was depressurized to five pounds per square inch, as it would be in space flight.