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say it: VEN-tuh-layt
ventilate is a verb meaning "expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen". It carries 5 recorded senses.
expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage
“Wheat should be well ventilated”
furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
“The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ventilate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.