vent

1. 1.

   give expression or utterance to

   “She vented her anger”

   “The graduates gave vent to cheers”

   Synonymsventilategive vent

   Broaderexpress
2. 2.

   expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen

   “air the old winter clothes”

   “air out the smoke-filled rooms”

   Synonymsventilateair outair

   Broaderrefresh

Other forms of vent

plural

vents·

past tense

vented·

present participle

venting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vent

What does vent mean?

vent means "a hole for the escape of gas or air". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vent?

vent has 1 syllable: vent. In IPA it is /ˈvɛnt/.

What is another word for vent?

Close synonyms include venthole, vent-hole, blowhole, volcano, release. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vent a common word?

vent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with vent?

7 words rhyme with vent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.