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/vˈɛntəlˌeɪt/ /vˈɛnəlˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Ventilate v. t. (past & past part. ventilated; pres. part. ventilating)

To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.

To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.

To change or renew, as the air of a room.

To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.

To give vent to; to utter; to make public. "Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those startling, but not very profound, paradoxes."

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"Ventilate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to ventilate his wrath, he broke forth into tirades against the enemy's espionage, against the carelessness of the police force in permitting so many Germans to remain hidden in Paris. Then he suddenly became quiet, thinking of his own behavior in this line. He, too, was involuntarily contributing toward the ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... that you should feel slighted, but there was no intention to igno' yo' rights. The committee will be please' to have you ventilate yo' views." ...

— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... by court beauties in the reign of Charles II.? He faithfully painted what passed before him. Miss Earl, the objection I urge against the novel you are preparing does not apply to magazine essays, where an author may concentrate all the erudition he can obtain and ventilate it unchallenged; for review writers now serve the public in much the same capacity that cup-bearers did royalty in ancient days; and they are expected to taste strong liquors as well as sweet cordials and sour light wines. Moreover, a certain haze of sanctity envelops the precincts of 'Maga,' ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... books, for which I rest his debtor; or, for any thing I know, or can guess to the contrary, he may be about to read a lecture on my weaknesses. He is welcome to them (as he was to my humble hearth), if they can divert a spleen, or ventilate a fit of sullenness. I wish he would not quarrel with the world at the rate he does; but the reconciliation must be effected by himself, and I despair of living to see that day. But, protesting against much that he has ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... 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, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

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