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Destress vs Decompress - What's the difference?

destress | decompress |

As verbs the difference between destress and decompress

is that destress is to reduce the stresses in a material while decompress is to relieve the pressure or compression on something.

destress

English

Verb

  • To reduce the stresses in a material
  • To reduce the stress in a person
  • To reduce emphasis
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    decompress

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To relieve the pressure or compression on something.
  • To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  • (computing) To restore compressed data to its normal size.
  • To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  • (informal) To relax.
  • Derived terms

    * decompression

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