depressurize
/diːˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/verb
depressurize is a verb meaning “To reduce the air pressure within a chamber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-P-R-E-S-S-U-R-I-Z-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does depressurize mean?
verb
- 1
To reduce the air pressure within a chamber.
- 2
To have the pressure of one's environmental atmosphere reduced.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce depressurize?
- UK /diːˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/
Depressurize has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of depressurize
- depressurizes present, singular, he/she/it
- depressurizing participle, present
- depressurized participle, past
- depressurise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is depressurize?
Depressurize appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Depressurize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to reduce the air pressure within a chamber:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dépressuriser |
| German | den Druck verringern (bei/von) |
| Portuguese | despressurizar |
| Spanish | despresurizar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.