Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vented
IPA transcription: [v'ɛntɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: vented
    Meaning: supplied with a vent or vents for intake of air or discharge of gases
Usage examples
  • At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward.
  • Indeed, I may say--without vanity, I hope--that I held something like pre-eminence among them. One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented itself chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.