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What does depressurize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word depressurize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To reduce the air pressure within a chamber.
  2. (intransitive) To have the pressure of one's environmental atmosphere reduced.
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He clutched the ceiling holding tightly and waited for the cabin to depressurize.
By the time someone got to him, the man had already torn away the door's interior panelling and was about to depressurize the cabin.
When the timed process is completed, turn off the heat, remove the canner from heat if possible, and let the canner depressurize.
The flight engineer began to depressurize the aircraft to prevent a rapid decompression from occurring if the EDC failed during the descent.
Use the in-line air shut-off valve to pressurize or depressurize barrel reservoir.
Several whole windows would have to be blasted out before a plane would depressurize enough to threaten life within the cabin.

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