ventilate
IPA: vˈɛntʌɫeɪt
verb
- To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
- To circulate air through a building, etc.
- To provide with a vent.
- To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
- To expose something to public examination or discussion.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).
- (intransitive, medicine) To breathe.
- (slang) To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.
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Examples of "ventilate" in Sentences
- But Massey said the disagreement over how to ventilate the mine showed just why the agency should have open hearings on the accident.
- The rooms "ventilate" from one to another; bedroom, dining-room, and kitchen being practically one room, with only one window opening to the
- Here's how to start returning your home to the condition it was in before the deluge: When the rains stop, open up the doors and windows to ventilate the area ..
- You and I often get angry at God or at life itself when we lose loved ones, and the Bible is telling us it's OK to feel that anger, even to "ventilate" that anger.
- Diary of a Modern Matriarch about the topic of Prop 8 and a way to 'ventilate' the negative feelings about how all that crazy-ass shit went down on the West Coast.
- The Labor Department's lawsuit accuses Freedom of failing to do enough to prevent the mine's roof and walls from collapsing and to effectively ventilate the mine to remove methane and other gases.
- This also means that my laptop sits between two piles that offer just enough room on either side for the thing to rest on a small cardboard box I use to elevate the rear of the laptop and "ventilate" it.
- Mr. Blankenship says he believes MSHA forced the company to use an inferior plan to ventilate methane from the mine, based on past disagreements between the company and the agency, and says MSHA has an incentive to withhold information.
- He had recently declared in Yorkshire that "nothing on earth should ever tempt him to accept place," and that he was conscious of the power to compel the execution of measures which, before that democratic election, he could only "ventilate".
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