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Vent   /vɛnt/   Listen
Vent

noun
1.
A hole for the escape of gas or air.  Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole.
2.
External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate.
3.
A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt.  Synonym: volcano.
4.
A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket).
5.
Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion.  Synonyms: outlet, release.  "He gave vent to his anger"
verb
(past & past part. vented; pres. part. venting)
1.
Give expression or utterance to.  Synonyms: give vent, ventilate.  "The graduates gave vent to cheers"
2.
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.  Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate.  "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"



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"Vent" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave vent to her anger in a hearty fit of crying, then set to work at the lessons with a sincere desire to please the husband she really ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... etoit age alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a merite les regrets de tous ceux qui avoient le bonheur de le connoitre. Ne serieux, il avoit dans l'esprit tous les agremens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de louanges, a ces agremens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit toutes les qualitez ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... a welcome vent to Waythorn's nerves. "What the deuce are you bringing this here for?" ...
— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... spoke, Buzzard's eye, with a leer, lighted on the cask in the corner. He bethought him that it had a vent-hole even though the landlord had removed the spigot. He tiptoed unsteadily across the room, and proceeded with much difficulty to insert a straw in the small opening. He had thus already added materially to his maudlin condition, before Swallow discovered, with consternation ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... philosophic. Indeed, his soul was in mad turmoil. He could have thrown his arms toward the blue sky and cursed aloud the fates that had set this new tangle at his feet. He longed for the jungles and some mad beast to vent his wrath upon. But he gave no sign. He had returned with a purpose as hard and grim as iron; and no obstacle, less powerful than death, should divert or control him. Abduction? Let the public believe what it might; he held the key to the ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath


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