English Dictionary

ventilate

verb

To replace stale or noxious air with fresh. / To circulate air through a building, etc. / To provide with a vent. / To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.

Open the windows to ventilate the room.

意味（1）

To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.

意味（2）

To circulate air through a building, etc.

意味（3）

To provide with a vent.

意味（4）

To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.

意味（5）

To expose something to public examination or discussion.

Well, I did my best. I had no hopes, and it has worked out as I thought. It is a pure waste of time. Not at all, Malone answered. It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice.

意味（6）

(medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.

意味（7）

(slang) To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.

If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain.