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🌬️ To let in air 🗣️ To express openly
to ventilate

to ventilate

12 4.4
To let fresh air into a room so it is not stuffy
  • verb
  • /ˈvɛntɪˌleɪt/
translation icon : ventilar
  • During the summer, it is important to ventilate your home to avoid overheating.
  • mechanically ventilated
  • ventilated patients
  • poorly ventilated

So what you do is you get the bag valve mask, you put it in here and that could safely ventilate a patient so you could walk away.

Examples

  • Always ventilate the area when using strong chemicals to ensure that harmful fumes do not accumulate.

  • It is properly ventilated for these hot summer months.

    Killing Lincoln (2013)

  • How does the way in which we heat, cool, insulate, furnish, and ventilate our buildings affect our health?

    Academic text (2009)

  • Smaller rooms, such as group rooms and classrooms, are not well ventilated, and the air quality affects the students' work and concentration.

    Academic text (2018)

  • There are no mechanical ventilation systems in the very old campus buildings; they are only ventilated using natural ventilation.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The composting system is equipped with an exhaust system that ventilates the interior of the enclosed compost building.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Make sure to ventilate the room by opening the windows and using fans to allow fresh air to circulate.

Synonyms

to vent
vsto ventilate
26 3.8

To let fresh air into a room or clothes to remove bad smells

lets fresh air flow through rooms or spaces for general circulation
to air
vsto ventilate
20 1.0

To put something in fresh air to dry

uses moving fresh breeze in rooms instead of drying small objects
to air out
vsto ventilate
8 3.0

Open something so wind from outside moves through it to remove bad smells or moisture

moves fresh air through spaces rather than only refreshing items
to aerate
vsto ventilate
5 4.5

To put air into something, for example soil or liquid

refers to moving fresh air through spaces rather than adding oxygen to materials

Antonyms

to suffocate
  • NSFW
81 6.1

To have no air to breathe or to stop someone from getting air

to stifle
  • NSFW
7 6.6

To stop a person from breathing so they cannot get air

How Ventilated

to aerate
5 4.5
to air
20 1.0
to ventilate
12 4.4
to seal
457 2.5
to close up
15 3.7

Surface Forms

ventilate infinitive
ventilated past
ventilated past participle
ventilating present participle
ventilates third person singular

Morphology

ventilate = vent (semi-transparent) = vent + ilate

The suffix 'ilate' is not a standard English suffix, making the transformation less transparent.

Etymology

The word ventilate comes from the Latin root ventus meaning 'wind'. So to ventilate a room is to let 'wind' or fresh air into it.