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décompresser — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • unwind verb To relax and let go of stress after a busy or tense period.
  • unzip verb To open something by pulling apart its zip fastener.

Senses

décompresser is used for these senses in English:

  • blow off steam (idiomatic) To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.
  • unwind (intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
  • unzip (computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

unwind — full definition

  1. verb To relax and let go of stress after a busy or tense period.
  2. verb To undo something that has been wound or twisted, or to reverse a complicated arrangement.

unzip — full definition

  1. verb To open something by pulling apart its zip fastener.
  2. verb To decompress a computer file that has been compressed into a zip archive.

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