decom'pressive
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure |
| 2. | to return (a diver, caisson worker, etc) to a condition of normal atmospheric pressure gradually from a condition of increased pressure or (of a diver, etc) to be returned to such a condition |
| decom'pression | |
| —n | |
| decom'pressive | |
| —adj | |
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Decom'pressive
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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