ventilate
/'ventileit/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To cause air to enter and move freely through a space: To provide an opening or system that allows fresh air to circulate, removing stale air, odors, or gases.
- To express an opinion or feeling openly: To give voice to thoughts, ideas, or emotions, allowing them to be discussed or considered.
- To expose something to air: To freshen, cool, or preserve something by exposing it to a flow of air.
Usage and Examples
- Providing air circulation:
- It is important to ventilate the kitchen properly to remove cooking smells.
- The new building design will ventilate the atrium naturally.
- Expressing thoughts or feelings:
- The meeting allowed employees to ventilate their concerns about the new policy.
- He needed to ventilate his frustrations after a difficult day.
- Exposing to air:
- After the flood, they had to ventilate the basement to dry it out.
- You should ventilate the room after painting to clear the fumes.
Advanced Usage
- "Ventilate a question/issue": To bring a topic into the open for public discussion and examination.
- The journalist's article helped to ventilate the issue of government transparency.
- In medical contexts: To assist or provide breathing for a patient, though this is more commonly expressed as "to ventilate a patient" in clinical terminology.
- The patient was sedated and ventilated during the surgery.
Variants and Related Words
- Ventilation (n): The act or process of ventilating; the system that provides fresh air.
- The office has excellent ventilation.
- Ventilator (n): A device or opening that provides ventilation, or a machine that helps a person breathe.
- The window acts as a natural ventilator.
- Vent (n/v): An opening for air to escape; to give free expression to a strong emotion.
- She vented her anger. (This is a related but distinct verb.)
Synonyms
- Aerate: To expose to air.
- Air out: To freshen by exposing to air.
- Express: To convey a thought or feeling.
- Voice: To express in words.
Related Phrasal Verbs / Constructions
- Ventilate something thoroughly: To ensure complete air exchange.
- Make sure to ventilate the room thoroughly after using the cleaning chemicals.
- Be well ventilated: Describes a space with good air flow.
- For safety, a laboratory must be well ventilated.
Related Idioms
- Give vent to: To express a strong emotion freely. (Note: This idiom uses "vent," not "ventilate," but is semantically related to the expression meaning.)
- She finally gave vent to her feelings of disappointment.
Verb
- furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
- The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space
- give expression or utterance to
- She vented her anger
- The graduates gave vent to cheers
- circulate through and freshen
- The gust of air ventilated the room
- expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage
- Wheat should be well ventilated
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- air the old winter clothes
- air out the smoke-filled rooms