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decompress

[dee-kuhm-pres] / ˌdi kəmˈprɛs /


VERB
reduce pressure
Synonyms
STRONG
depressurize
WEAK
Antonyms


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That freedom helps them decompress, build resilience, and develop healthy habits for life.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

“That was really a nice way to decompress and reframe my experience.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

"It takes me roughly 45 minutes. Walking is a great way for me to decompress before and after work and also speak on the phone to my family whilst doing some form of exercise."

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

They encouraged me to take as much time as I needed to relax and decompress after a crazy Olympic experience.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

"Once you take a piece away, the tissue decompresses like a flat tire," Purmessur Walter said.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

As Pedro decompresses on the golf course, they zip around the country club in their golf carts as a few bewildered seniors look on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

In the offseason, Rodgers decompresses with non-football activities, such as the darkness retreat in Oregon he used to do some self-reflection - and ultimately led him to the Jets.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

Damani decompresses by hanging out at the Doo Wop club with Shereef, a mechanic by day and a fellow driver by night, and Stephanie, a teacher.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

Manning’s memoir decompresses the false equivalences that have been required of her and reconstructs the epiphanies that cemented her political convictions.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

A heat pump basically runs a chemical - the refrigerant - round and round in a closed loop, going from hot to cold, gas to liquid, compressed to decompressed.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Waters says that each dog will be different, but typically by the six-month mark they’ll be settled, fully decompressed, and begin developing a strong relationship with you.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

On a recent evening, the 66-year-old sipped coffee and decompressed after a shift at a farm outside of Fresno.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

When it was over, he decompressed by watching co-star Richard Jenkins, who plays his father, play father to another impossible son in the Will Ferrell comedy “Step Brothers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

It was “the place where I decompressed, and thought through all the problems,” he said.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

The extensively engineered retaining wall and thoughtful landscaping transformed the property into a series of expansive outdoor living spaces designed for entertaining, decompressing, and fully embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

In late 1981, Bruce Springsteen was living in a rented house in Colts Neck, N.J., decompressing from a grueling world tour following the release of his 1980 album, “The River.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

These days, Sundays look a bit different for the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and whistler, but they’re still a time for decompressing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024

Harbaugh has spent the last week decompressing after the Wolverines beat Washington 34-13 last Monday.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

An outgrowth of chaos mathematics, it is being used for compressing and decompressing high quality images.

From The Online World by Odd De Presno


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