decompress
verb (used with object)
to cause to undergo decompression.
decompressed
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past participleof decompress.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof decompress.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Once shooting was done, she says she decompressed by watching “SpongeBob SquarePants” and decidedly more wholesome fare, “just to make sure that the brain was cleared out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
"That's the best thing for my mental health and then I'll come back when I feel better, when I've decompressed over everything that's been going on."
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
It was “the place where I decompressed, and thought through all the problems,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
“A lot of shelters have decompressed, meaning they’re spreading beds apart, but it’s still a risky place to be for transmission of COVID-19.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
It was a holiday weekend, and she decompressed by steering a paddleboard out to sea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
