vent
/vɛnt/ verb C2- To allow gases to escape. · The stove vents to the outside.
- To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- To allow to escape through a vent. · Exhaust is vented to the outside.
- To express a strong emotion. · He vents his anger violently.· Can we talk? I need to vent.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.
- To use a vent in the video game Among Us.
He/she/it vents · Past vented · Past participle vented · -ing form venting
Verb forms
- Base form
- vent
- He/she/it
- vents
- Past
- vented
- Past participle
- vented
- -ing form
- venting
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When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and then Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.
I would fain fix the source of it on man that I may no longer vent reproaches upon Heaven.”
But beneath this superficial calm there were in the heart of the young man, and perhaps in that of the old man, many repressed desires, many stifled sighs, which found vent when Faria was left alone, and when Edmond returned to his cell.
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