vents

• acts out
• advertises
• airs
• announces
• articulations
• broadcasts
• casts
• chimes in
• circulates
• communicates
• conveys
• declares
• describes
• discharges
• disseminates
• ejects
• eliminates
• emanates
• emits
• enounces
• enunciates
• erupts
• evacuates
• evolves
• excretes
• exhales
• expels
• expires
• expounds
• expresses
• expressions
• exudes
• formulations
• gives
• gives air to
• gives out
• gushes
• irradiates
• issues
• jets
• looks
• looses
• observations
• offers
• oozes
• outlets
• outpours
• phrasings
• pours
• proclaims
• publishes
• puts across
• puts forth
• puts over
• radiates
• raises
• reflections
• releases
• remarks
• says
• secretes
• shoots
• sounds
• sounds off
• speaks out
• speaks up
• speeches
• spews
• spouts
• sprays
• spurts
• squirts
• statements
• states
• submits
• takes out
• thoughts
• throws out
• tongues
• unleashes
• utterances
• ventilates
• verbalisms
• voices
• wordings
• writes
• writes up

• absorbs
• allays
• bridles
• censors
• checks
• chokes
• constrains
• contains
• controls
• curbs
• governs
• handles
• holds back
• inhales
• inhibits
• lulls
• manages
• muffles
• pockets
• pulls in
• quells
• quiets
• represses
• restrains
• restricts
• smothers
• soothes
• sponges
• stifles
• stills
• strangles
• suppresses
• swallows
• takes up
• tames

• noun
  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  2. A small aperture.
  3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
  4. A verbalized frustration.
  5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
  6. A slit in the seam of a garment.
  7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
  11. Ventriloquism.
  12. A baiting place; an inn.
  13. Ventilation or ventilator.
• verb
  1. To allow gases to escape.
  2. To allow to escape through a vent.
  3. To express a strong emotion.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  5. To sell; to vend.
  6. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

• The house has several vents to improve air circulation throughout the rooms.
• She opened the vents in the car to let in some fresh air.
• The air conditioning system vents cool air into the room during the hot summer months.
• The technician checked the vents to ensure there were no blockages.
• The kitchen vents should be cleaned regularly to prevent grease buildup.

radiates

keyholes

raises

jets

takes out

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