All compress antonyms
com·press
C c verb compress
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- release — to lease again.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- add — ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- unwrinkle — to smooth the wrinkles from.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- untie — to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
- blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.