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Vent   /vɛnt/   Listen
Vent

noun
1.
A hole for the escape of gas or air.  Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole.
2.
External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate.
3.
A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt.  Synonym: volcano.
4.
A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket).
5.
Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion.  Synonyms: outlet, release.  "He gave vent to his anger"
verb
(past & past part. vented; pres. part. venting)
1.
Give expression or utterance to.  Synonyms: give vent, ventilate.  "The graduates gave vent to cheers"
2.
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.  Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate.  "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"



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"Vent" Quotes from Famous Books



... she knew like a flash, and on the instant, that what he said was true. She had been warned before she came to bear no tales to any one. No Oriental would believe the tale, coming from her; the Maharajah would arrest her promptly, glad of the excuse to vent his hatred of Christian missionaries. Jaimihr would attempt a rescue; it was common knowledge that he plotted for the throne. There would be instant civil war, in which the British Government would perforce back up the alleged protector of a defenseless woman. There would be a new Maharajah; ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... Arundell, "Caiaphas sitteth in consistory. The wolf was hungry; he must needs be fed with blood. Bloody murderers." With many others, yet more ungentle. The justice of the judgment cannot but be questioned when the feelings of the historian give themselves vent in such language as this. Still we must make great ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... the inquirer, at the same time giving vent to a loud and hearty laugh. Surely, thought I, sailors are every where the same sort of beings, rough and boisterous as the ...
— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker
... were giving of the T'Souduckey tribe having made an irruption on Teer-a-witte (Hoo doo's district) and killed the chief's son with thirty warriors. He was too much affected to hear more; but retired into a corner of the cabin, where he gave vent to his grief, which was only interrupted by his threats ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... despatch, smoked their pipes and gazed with delighted wonder at the novel operations of "Tummas" and his master. As the several compartments of the tub yielded up their mysterious contents, the dusky spectators gave vent to ejaculations of amazement, and several times he of the striped face stepped forward for a closer ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore


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