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Ventilate   /vˈɛntəlˌeɪt/  /vˈɛnəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Ventilate

verb
(past & past part. ventilated; pres. part. ventilating)
1.
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.  Synonyms: air, air out, vent.  "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"
2.
Expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage.
3.
Circulate through and freshen.
4.
Give expression or utterance to.  Synonyms: give vent, vent.  "The graduates gave vent to cheers"
5.
Furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape.





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"Ventilate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the navigators of a ship to paint her hull. You do not expect an architect to make bricks (sometimes without straw). You do not expect the barrister to go and repair the lock on the law courts door, or oil the fans that ventilate the halls of justice. Yet you do, collectively, tolerate a tradition by which the marine engineer has to assist, overlook, and very often perform work corresponding precisely to the irrelevant chores mentioned above, which are in other professions relegated to the humblest ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... stand upon the bank, therefore, and watch its successive waves, instead of manfully leaping in and committing one's life and fortunes to it, is scarcely the part of a wise man. Mr. Lecky's essay would seem to have originated more in a desire to try his hand at theorizing than in any necessity to ventilate some previous drifts from the beginning to the end of his book. You never feel yourself in a compact, water-tight boat, obedient to rudder and sail, but at most on a raft, drifting at the absolute gre of the tides, in a certain general direction, no doubt, but with no ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various


Words linked to "Ventilate" :   alter, circulate, change, expose, refresh, ventilatory, ventilator, modify, freshen, vent, show, express, evince, ventilation


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