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 the 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.
To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.
To change or renew, as the air of a room.
--Harvey.To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.
--Ayliffe.-
To give vent; to utter; to make public.
Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those starling, but not very profound, paradoxes.
--J. C. Shairp.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: ventilate)
WordNet
adj. exposed to air; "a well ventilated room" [ant: unventilated]
Usage examples of "ventilated".
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.
It was a cool dry room, very badly ventilated, but otherwise nothing extraordinary.
We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide.