DEPRESSURIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depressurize mean? 

• DEPRESSURIZE (verb)
  The verb DEPRESSURIZE has 1 sense:

1. decrease the pressure of

  Familiarity information: DEPRESSURIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRESSURIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they depressurize    ... he / she / it depressurizes   
Past simple: depressurized   
Past participle: depressurized   
-ing form: depressurizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decrease the pressure of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

decompress; depressurise; depressurize

Context example:

depressurize the cabin in the air plane

Hypernyms (to "depressurize" is one way to...):

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depressurize"):

puncture (cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

pressurize (increase the pressure in or of)