vent
verb
1.
give expression or utterance to
- “She vented her anger”
- “The graduates gave vent to cheers”
noun
3.
Origin
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
Phrases
- air admittance vent
- air vent
- fissure vent
- give vent to
- hydrothermal vent
- O'Shea's vent barnacle
- pie vent
- ridge vent
- vent one's gall
- vent one's spleen
- vent sex
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