MEANING
To reduce the pressure inside an enclosed space or system.
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Words that belong together
- depressurize an airlock
- depressurized compartment
On the page
The outer chamber depressurized before the hatch opened.
Engineers isolated the line before depressurizing it.
Opposite meanings
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Word forms
- Base
- depressurize
- Past tense
- depressurized
- Past participle
- depressurized
- Present participle
- depressurizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- depressurize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are depressurizing
- Present perfect
- have/has depressurized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been depressurizing
- Past
- depressurized
- Past continuous
- was/were depressurizing
- Past perfect
- had depressurized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been depressurizing
- Future
- will depressurize
- Future continuous
- will be depressurizing
- Future perfect
- will have depressurized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been depressurizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: depressurize; depressurizes; depressurized; depressurized; depressurizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: depressurizes.
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