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What does decompressing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of decompress
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In the clubhouse afterward, decompressing at his locker with his elbows on his knees, Hensley couldn't stop shaking his head.
We were decompressing from a full day of bar study and torture.
He encountered buoyancy problems during his ascent, so he headed directly to the surface without decompressing.
I have been walking all day and night, and am now decompressing before the flight home in the morning.
A Kerrison rongeur is used to remove the thinned lamina, carefully decompressing the spinal canal.
Decompressing isn't a word that befriends me at the best of times, but certainly sitting at a piano or spending time at the theatre or a good concert helps.

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