repressurised

Made airtight again

Repressurised is the past tense of repressurise, meaning to restore pressure to something that has lost it.

Aircraft cabins are repressurised after descending to lower altitudes.

Divers in decompression chambers may be repressurised to treat the bends.

The spelling is British; American English uses repressurized.

aerospace

cabin

Simple wooden dwelling

cockpit · fuselage · pressurization · depressurization · flight · atmosphere · oxygen · seal · hatch · suit

underwater

submarine

Underwater naval craft

decompression · chamber · depth · submersible · hull · ballast · bathysphere · caisson · nitrogen · ascent

industrial

valve

Fluid flow controller

  • pumpFluid-moving machine
  • tankLarge storage vessel
  • gaugeStandard of measurement

seal · piping · hydraulics · pneumatics · cylinder · vessel · manifold · gasket · fitting · actuator

restoration

restored

Returned to original condition

resealed · reconditioned · recommissioned · reactivated · normalized · stabilized · equilibrium · operational · functional · maintained

Opposites
pressure state

repressuriseddepressurised

Pressure reduced or released

decompressed · depressurized · vented · deflated · evacuated

Family

press, pressure, expression, impression, depression, pressured, decompress, compression, oppression

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