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Meanings of decompress in English

Portuguese
pegar leve
Catalan
relaxar
Spanish
relajar

Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.

pegar leve
Portuguese
descompactar
Catalan
descomprimir

Decrease the pressure of.

descompactar

Restore to its uncompressed form.

Usage of decompress in English
1
Devlin is sent back to his hotel by his team to 'decompress'.
The Guardian
2
Um, yes-itwas good to get a chance to just decompress.
Hush: a novel
3
He's still worked up, probably needs a few minutes to decompress.
Terminal
4
He would need a month just to sort through everything himself and decompress.
Hollow World
5
Your guests may be weary from travel and need to decompress.
Ebony
6
Torre went home and tried to decompress from a draining season.
The Yankee Years
7
He wasn't going to let her just sit there and decompress.
Hush: a novel
8
It was what allowed him to decompress and sleep at night.
Consent to kill: a thriller
9
We put in an emergency needle to decompress the damaged lung.
The Guardian
10
We all went back to the kitchen to have a beer and decompress.
Climbing Magazine
11
She says she went there to decompress after a big tour.
Radio NZ
12
Decrypted OK, but the file was corrupted when I tried to decompress it.'
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
13
If you compressed the backup, don't separately decompress and load it.
High performance mysql, 2nd edition
14
Another week was added in Kerala, a flight away, to decompress before heading home.
The Irish Times
15
I always need to decompress when my time off arrives.
Independent.ie
16
I need to decompress with a friend for a while.
Nemesis
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Translations for decompress
Spanish
relajar
Decompress through the time
Decompress across language varieties
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