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GIVE VENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does give vent mean?
• GIVE VENT (verb)
The verb GIVE VENT has 1 sense:
1. give expression or utterance to
Familiarity information: GIVE VENT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give expression or utterance to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Context example:
The graduates gave vent to cheers
Hypernyms (to "give vent" is one way to...):
evince; express; show (give expression to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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