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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9 words match “VENTILATE”

VENTILATE v. 6 definitions
free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
EVENTILATE v. 2 definitions
To discuss; to ventilate. [Obs.] Johnson.
AIR v.
To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.
DISCUSS v.
y presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate. "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.
FAN v.
To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.
SAFE n.
A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
STUFFY a.
Ill-ventilated; close.
VENTILATION n.
The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation. F. W. Robertson.
WIND v.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.