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
- The mine was ventilated by furnace.
- They ventilate, cool and heat the hive.
- These ventilate and cool the structures.
- The first priority was to ventilate the workings.
- Housing was crowded, poorly ventilated, and unsanitary.
- In order to ventilate the frog uses its throat to pump air into the lungs.
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