air
/ɛɚ/ verb C1- To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. · I'll hang these clothes on the rack to air them.
- To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate. · It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.
- To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion). · Residents used the public meeting to air their concerns about the poor state of the roads.
- To broadcast (a television show etc.). · The BBC decided not to air the controversial episode.
- To be broadcast. · This game show first aired in the 1990s and is still going today.
He/she/it airs · Past aired · Past participle aired · -ing form airing
Verb forms
- Base form
- air
- He/she/it
- airs
- Past
- aired
- Past participle
- aired
- -ing form
- airing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall.
There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
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