ventilate
verb
[ ˈvɛntɪleɪt ]
• cause air to enter and circulate freely in (a room, building, etc.).
• "ventilate the greenhouse well"
• discuss or examine (an opinion, issue, or complaint) in public.
• "he used the club to ventilate an ongoing complaint"
Similar:
express,
give expression to,
air,
give an airing to,
bring into the open,
raise,
register,
lodge,
bring up,
come out with,
reveal,
assert,
declare,
communicate,
utter,
voice,
give voice to,
put into words,
verbalize,
talk about,
discuss,
debate,
talk over,
• subject to artificial respiration.
• "the patient was sedated and ventilated"
• kill (someone) by shooting.
• "I pull out a gun and ventilate her dinner companion"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘winnow, scatter’): from Latin ventilat- ‘blown, winnowed’, from the verb ventilare, from ventus ‘wind’. Sense 1 dates from the mid 18th century.
