DECOMPRESSED Synonyms

• decrease the pressure of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• make less taut

• become loose or looser or less tight

• cause to feel relaxed

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• make less active or fast

• straighten up or out; make straight

• unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay

• free from flexure

• make less taut

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• release from mental strain, tension, or formality

• restore to its uncompressed form

• reverse the winding or twisting of

• separate the tangles of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• cause to feel relaxed

• cause to become unblocked

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• cause to feel relaxed

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• reduce the speed of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease