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Ventilate

//ˈvɛntɪleɪt// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
  2. 2
    expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen wordnet
  3. 3
    To circulate air through a building, etc.
  4. 4
    furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape wordnet
  5. 5
    To provide with a vent.
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  1. 6
    give expression or utterance to wordnet
  2. 7
    To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
  3. 8
    circulate through and freshen wordnet
  4. 9
    To expose something to public examination or discussion.

    ""Well, I did my best. I had no hopes, and it has worked out as I thought. It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice.""

  5. 10
    expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage wordnet
  6. 11
    To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient). transitive
  7. 12
    To breathe. intransitive

    "Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated. However, with some high thoracic or low cervical lesions, patients who ventilate independently in the emergency department may arrive in the ICU without assisted ventilation."

  8. 13
    To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets. slang

    "If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain."

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin ventilātus, past participle of ventilō.

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