To release from pressure or to relieve from being pressed down.
From dis- (reverse) + press (from Latin pressare, to press or push). The verb literally describes the action of reducing pressure or releasing something that was pressed.
In printing and papermaking, 'dispress' was technical jargon for releasing paper from the press—a word that lived entirely within a specific craft until that craft's language largely disappeared.
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