Definitions for ventilate

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ventilate ven·ti·late

Spelling: [ven-tl-eyt]

IPA: /ˈvɛn tlˌeɪt/

Ventilate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 340 anagrams from letters in ventilate (aeeilnttv).

Definitions for ventilate

verb (used with object)

1. to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
2. Medicine/Medical. to oxygenate (blood) by exposure to air in the lungs or gills. to assist the breathing of (a person), as with a respirator.
3. (of air or wind) to circulate through or blow on, so as to cool or freshen the air of:
4. to expose to the action of air or wind:
5. to submit (a question, problem, etc.) to open, full examination and discussion.
6. to give utterance or expression to (an opinion, complaint, etc.).
7. to furnish with a vent or opening, as for the escape of air or gas.

verb (used without object)

1. to give utterance or expression to one's emotions, opinions, complaints, etc.

Origin of ventilate

1400-50; late Middle English ventilatten to blow (something) away Latin ventilātus (past participle of ventilāre to fan), equivalent to vent(us) wind¹ + -i

Examples for ventilate

To air Plants, and ventilate Rooms wherein they are contained.

The first thing to be done is to open windows and doors, and to ventilate the apartment.

Now I had either overventilated or failed to ventilate my room.

What fun it was to dig him out, and ventilate his musty nest of fish-bones!

Go on, now, and tell me how you purpose to ventilate the mine.

He does not want to ventilate the mine—he has his own reasons, of course.

My dear, the object of a meeting is to ventilate the subject.

The window had been opened for a few inches at the top, no doubt to ventilate the room.

These are broad questions that a man of liberal mind dare not ventilate.

Sometimes there are openings through the core from end to end to ventilate and cool it.