vent

Definition

  • noun: an opening for the escape of a gas or liquid or for the relief of pressure
  • verb: to allow (something, such as smoke or gas) to go out through an opening
  • verb: to provide with a vent

Examples

  • She didn't want to 'give full vent to' her feelings. [=let her feelings out completely]

  • She 'vented' her frustrations by kicking the car.

  • She needed to find a 'vent' for her frustration.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) who know what they're doing. Before you do that, Chris, I wanna tell you about Officer Bennett. Few years back, some wacko, he abducted a kid... ...threw him down a mine vent up there in Silent Hill. Cybil Bennett, she found that boy. She spent three days holding onto him... ...keeping him alive (..)
    2006 Silent Hill