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- verb To reduce the
pressure of something, especially of a gas inside a container; todepressurize
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Examples
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Horatius obtained this name from the loss of one of his eyes in the wars, or, as others write, from the depressure of his nose, which, leaving nothing in the middle to separate them, made both eyes appear but as one; and hence, intending to say
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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At the beginning of 1805, he experienced a sudden and general failure of his bodily faculties, and a correspondent depressure of mind.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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