ventilating

The word “ventilating” has 4 syllables: ven-ti-la-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈvɛn.tɪˌleɪ.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for ventilating?

In the thesaurus, “ventilating” has 36 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ventilating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ventilating

  • advertising
  • airing
  • announcing
  • broadcasting
  • chiming in
  • circulating
  • communicating
  • conveying
  • declaring
  • describing
  • disseminating
  • enouncing
  • enunciating
  • expounding
  • expressing
  • giving
  • giving air to
  • looking
  • offering
  • proclaiming
  • publishing
  • putting across
  • putting forth
  • putting over
  • raising
  • saying
  • sounding
  • sounding off
  • speaking out
  • speaking up
  • stating
  • submitting
  • venting
  • voicing
  • writing
  • writing up

Antonyms for ventilating

  • censoring
  • restraining
  • restricting
  • stifling
  • suppressing

Meanings of ventilating

  • verb
    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. To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.
    7. To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.

Example Sentences

  • She was ventilating the room to get rid of the strong smell of paint.
  • The workers were ventilating the warehouse to ensure the air was fresh.
  • After the storm, they spent hours ventilating the house to dry out the damp rooms.
  • He was busy ventilating the engine room to clear out the fumes.
  • The coach was ventilating the locker room, making it cooler for the players.

On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ventilating, such as: advertising, airing, announcing, broadcasting, censoring, chiming in, circulating.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

gasping

  • asphyxiating
  • asthmatic
  • being out of breath
  • blowing
  • blown
  • breathless
  • choking
  • emphysematous
  • exhaling
  • exhausted
  • expiring
  • gagging
  • gulping
  • heaving
  • huffing
  • huffing and puffing
  • hyperventilating
  • inhaling
  • out of breath
  • panting
  • puffing
  • respiratory
  • respiring
  • short of breath
  • short-winded
  • smothering
  • snoring
  • snuffling
  • spent
  • stertorous
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • wheezing
  • winded

panting

  • asphyxiating
  • being out of breath
  • blowing
  • breathless
  • choking
  • craving
  • dyspnea
  • exhaling
  • expiring
  • gagging
  • gasp
  • gasping
  • gulping
  • heaving
  • huffing
  • hunger
  • hyperpnea
  • hyperventilating
  • hyperventilation
  • longing
  • lust
  • palpitation
  • passion
  • puffing
  • respiring
  • short-winded
  • smothering
  • snoring
  • snuffling
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • wheezing
  • yearning

parleying

quick-freezing

  • air-conditioning
  • chilling
  • cooling
  • freezing
  • frosting
  • icing
  • refrigerating
  • supercooling
  • ventilating

raising

  • abetting
  • accelerating
  • accession
  • acclaiming
  • accretion
  • accumulating
  • activating
  • addition
  • adopting
  • adorning
  • advance
  • advancing
  • advertising
  • aggrandizing
  • agriculture
  • agrology
  • agronomics
  • agronomy
  • airing
  • amassing
  • amplifying
  • ancestry
  • announcing
  • applauding
  • architecture
  • arrangement
  • artistic
  • ascending
  • ascension
  • ascent
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • attending
  • augmentation
  • augmenting
  • baring
  • beautifying
  • beginning
  • beneficial
  • blastoff
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boost
  • boosting
  • bracing
  • breeding
  • brewing
  • bringing up
  • broaching
  • broadcasting
  • broadening
  • build
  • building
  • building up
  • buildup
  • bump
  • buttressing
  • calling forth
  • caregiving
  • caretaking
  • carpentering
  • cast
  • celebrating
  • chiming in
  • circulating
  • citing
  • civility
  • civilizing
  • climb
  • coining
  • collecting
  • combining
  • commending
  • commissioning
  • communicating
  • complementing
  • complimenting
  • composition
  • compounding
  • conceiving
  • conception
  • concocting
  • conduct
  • confecting
  • congratulating
  • constituting
  • constitution
  • constructing
  • constructive
  • contour
  • contriving
  • conveying
  • corrective
  • courtesy
  • cradling
  • craning
  • creating
  • cropping
  • cultivating
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • culturing
  • cut
  • debating
  • declaring
  • decorating
  • deepening
  • describing
  • designing
  • detonating
  • developing
  • development
  • developmental
  • devising
  • dignifying
  • dilating
  • directing
  • disciplining
  • disclosing
  • discovering
  • discussing
  • disposition
  • disseminating
  • distending
  • divulging
  • dragging
  • drawing out
  • dressing
  • edifice
  • edifying
  • educating
  • educative
  • educing
  • elaboration
  • elevating
  • elevation
  • eliciting
  • elongating
  • encouraging
  • energizing
  • enflaming
  • enhancing
  • enlargement
  • enlarging
  • enlightening
  • enlivening
  • ennobling
  • enouncing
  • enriching
  • enunciating
  • erecting
  • erection
  • escalating
  • establishing
  • eulogizing
  • evincing
  • evoking
  • exaggeration
  • exalting
  • exciting
  • expanding
  • expansion
  • expatiation
  • exposing
  • expounding
  • expressing
  • extending
  • extension
  • extolling
  • extorting
  • extracting
  • fabric
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • farming
  • fashioning
  • fatherhood
  • fathering
  • feeding
  • fermenting
  • figuration
  • figure
  • firing
  • fleshing out
  • following up
  • fomenting
  • forging
  • form
  • format
  • formation
  • forwarding
  • fosterage
  • fostering
  • foundation
  • founding
  • framing
  • furthering
  • gaining
  • galvanizing
  • gardening
  • gathering
  • generating
  • gentility
  • germinating
  • getting
  • giving
  • giving air to
  • gleaning
  • glorifying
  • grace
  • growing
  • guiding
  • hailing
  • hammering
  • handcrafting
  • harvesting
  • heave
  • heaving
  • hefting
  • heightening
  • helpful
  • hike
  • hiking
  • hoist
  • hoisting
  • honoring
  • humane
  • humanizing
  • hyping
  • imagining
  • improving
  • improvisation
  • inaugurating
  • inciting
  • increase
  • increasing
  • increment
  • indoctrinating
  • inflaming
  • inflating
  • influential
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • instigating
  • instituting
  • instructing
  • instructive
  • intensification
  • intensifying
  • interjecting
  • interrupting
  • introducing
  • inventing
  • invention
  • invigorating
  • jerry-building
  • jump
  • jump up
  • jumping
  • kicking upstairs
  • knighting
  • lauding
  • leading
  • learned
  • leg up
  • lengthening
  • levitation
  • liberal
  • liberalizing
  • lifting
  • liftoff
  • lineage
  • looking
  • magnification
  • magnifying
  • makeup
  • making
  • making up
  • manners
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • maternity
  • maximizing
  • mentioning
  • mentoring
  • minding
  • mold
  • molding
  • mooting
  • motherhood
  • mothering
  • motivating
  • mounting
  • move up
  • multiplying
  • naming
  • naturalizing
  • nourishing
  • nursing
  • nurture
  • nurturing
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • organizing
  • originating
  • origination
  • ornamenting
  • outline
  • padding
  • parenthood
  • parenting
  • parlaying
  • paternity
  • picking
  • picking up
  • piecing
  • pitching
  • placing
  • plan
  • planning
  • planting
  • polish
  • polishing
  • praising
  • prefab
  • prefabricating
  • prefabrication
  • preparing
  • proclaiming
  • procuring
  • producing
  • prolonging
  • promoting
  • promotion
  • propagating
  • proposing
  • protracting
  • provoking
  • publishing
  • pulling
  • pumping up
  • putting across
  • putting forth
  • putting over
  • putting together
  • putting up
  • quickening
  • raise
  • reaping
  • rearing
  • reassembling
  • rebuilding
  • reconstructing
  • redeveloping
  • reedifying
  • reenforcing
  • refined
  • refinement
  • refining
  • regenerative
  • reinforcing
  • retrofitting
  • revealing
  • ripening
  • rise
  • rising
  • roadwork
  • rooting
  • rousing
  • saluting
  • saying
  • schooling
  • securing
  • setting
  • setting in motion
  • setting off
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shaping
  • shepherding
  • showing
  • skyrocketing
  • soar
  • socializing
  • sounding
  • sounding off
  • sowing
  • speaking out
  • speaking up
  • spiking
  • sprouting
  • stating
  • step-up
  • stimulating
  • stoking
  • strengthening
  • stretching
  • structure
  • submitting
  • suggesting
  • supersizing
  • supplementing
  • supplying
  • supporting
  • swelling
  • system
  • systematization
  • takeoff
  • taking in
  • taking up
  • teaching
  • tending
  • throwing up
  • thrust
  • training
  • triggering
  • turn
  • tutoring
  • type
  • uncloaking
  • uncovering
  • uniting
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  • unveiling
  • upbringing
  • upending
  • upgrading
  • upheaval
  • upholding
  • uplifting
  • upping
  • upraising
  • upsurge
  • upsweep
  • upswing
  • upthrust
  • uptrend
  • upturn
  • upwelling
  • urbanity
  • ventilating
  • venting
  • vitalizing
  • voicing
  • wangling
  • watching
  • widening
  • wresting
  • wringing
  • writing
  • writing up

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