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Synonyms of the word 
DECOMPRESS → ADJUST - CORRECT - DEPRESSURISE - DEPRESSURIZE - RECONSTRUCT - RELAX - RESTORE - SET - TURN - UNBEND - UNCOMPRESS - UNWINDdecompress- v. (transitive) To relieve the pressure or compression on something.
- v. (transitive) To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed…
- v. (transitive, computing) To restore (compressed data) to its original form.
- v. (intransitive) To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To relax.
adjust- v. (transitive) To modify.
- v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
correct- adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
- adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
- v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
- v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
depressurise- v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of depressurize.
depressurize- v. (transitive) To reduce the air pressure within a chamber.
- v. (intransitive) To have the pressure of one's environmental atmosphere reduced.
reconstruct- v. To construct again; to restore.
- v. To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.
relax- v. (transitive) To calm down.
- v. (transitive) To make something loose.
- v. (intransitive) To become loose.
- v. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
- v. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
- v. (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
- v. (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
- v. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.
- v. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.
restore- n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
- v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
- v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
- v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
set- v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
- v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
- v. (transitive) To adjust.
- v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
- v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
- v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- v. (intransitive) To solidify.
- v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
- v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- v. To place or fix in a setting.
- v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
- v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
- v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
- n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
- n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
- n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
- n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
- n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
- n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
- n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
- n. A young oyster when first attached.
- n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
- n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- adj. Fixed in position.
- adj. Rigid, solidified.
- adj. Ready, prepared.
- adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
- adj. Prearranged.
- adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
- adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- n. A rudimentary fruit.
- n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
- n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- n. An object made up of several parts.
- n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
- n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- n. The scenery for a film or play.
- n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
- v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.
turn- v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
- v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
- v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
- v. (archaic) To translate.
- n. A change of direction or orientation.
- n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
- n. A single loop of a coil.
- n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
- n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
- n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
- n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
- n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
- n. A deed done to another.
- n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- n. Character; personality; nature.
- n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.
unbend- v. To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
- v. To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
- v. (nautical) To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
- v. To cast loose or untie.
- v. To cease to be bent; to become straight.
- v. To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like.
- v. (archaic) to enjoy oneself.
uncompress- v. (computing, transitive) To restore a compressed file to its normal size.
unwind- v. (transitive) To wind off; to loose or separate; to untwist; to untwine.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress.
- v. (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- v. (transitive, finance) To undo something.
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