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Expose to a current of fresh air
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ventilate
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Word definitions for ventilate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to scatter, disperse (as the wind does)," from Latin ventilatus , past participle of ventilare "to brandish, toss in the air, winnow, fan, agitate, set in motion," from ventulus "a breeze," diminutive of ventus "wind" (see wind (n.1)). Original ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Ventilate your house when painting. ▪ Doctrinal issues were never ventilated. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After treatment the store should be ventilated until the chlorine smell has dispersed. ▪ All these hazards, winter and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To replace stale or noxious air with fresh. 2 To circulate air through a building, etc. 3 To provide with a vent. 4 To expose something to the circulation of fresh air. 5 To expose something to public examination or discussion. 6 (context medicine ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn: vent , air out , air ] expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage; "Wheat should be well ventilated" circulate ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ventilate \Ven"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ventilated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ventilating .] [L. ventilatus, p. p. of ventilare to toss, brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. wind. See Wind rushing air.] To open and expose to ...
Usage examples of ventilate.
I ventilated about this at night to Reamy as we cleaned up after dinner.
This ventilating and illumining function of fearless and reverential critical thought will need to be fulfilled much longer in many quarters.
Others again, where the kitchen is not properly ventilated, get the smoke of frying and the smell of cooking all through them.
No room can be, or ought to be, ventilated so that its occupants can stay in it all day long without discomfort.
With this equipment and a good supply of heat, any room can be properly ventilated and kept so.
For when it comes to a choice between being warm or well ventilated, we are sadly prone to choose the former every time.
So keen is this draft, so high this pressure, that some loosely-built houses and rooms, with only a few people in them, will in very cold weather be almost sufficiently ventilated through the natural cracks and leaks without opening a window or a door at all.
Persons of fair health and reasonably vigorous outdoor habits, whose skins are well bathed and ventilated, can wear properly woven cotton or linen undergarments the whole year round with perfect safety.
It is even claimed that tuberculous children in an outdoor school may make more rapid progress in their studies than the more normal children in a badly ventilated school.
The depression and faintness from which many students suffer, after being confined in a poorly ventilated school room, is clearly traceable to vitiated air, while the evil is often ascribed to excessive mental exertion.
The sleeping room should be large and well ventilated, and the air kept moderately cool.
When an apartment is not in use, it should be thoroughly ventilated by opening the windows.
The sleeping-room should be large and well ventilated, and the patient should lie with the head elevated.
Many women are sickly and feeble because they live in badly ventilated rooms.
All are well lighted, have high ceilings, and are cheerful and well ventilated apartments.