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vent

/vɛnt/ noun C2
  1. Ventriloquism.

Plural vents

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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.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 53 · B2
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 36 · C1
I would fain fix the source of it on man that I may no longer vent reproaches upon Heaven.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 160 · C1
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 203 · C1

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