0 past simple and past participle of vent --
1 to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way: --
What representations did he receive following the measures taken last autumn which pre vented a rise in the price of newsprint?
Spleen is vented upon us because people cannot comment upon other races.
I understand perfectly well that anger should be vented on the system and not on the referee.
Monte's bitterness about the unfairness of his exclusion from the benefices is vented through detailed refutations of the reasons given to him for his repeated disqualifications over the years.
In other words, there would be confusion when law was inconsistently enforced, but more than that, between the lines, one can hear a real grievance being vented against discrimination.
A decline of ethnic tensions would be expected because, after an initial period in which pent-up tensions are vented, a healthy set of nonconflictual coping mechanisms should develop.
During one experiment the soil sample was first humidified for several hours, after which the test cell was heated and vented to dry out the sample.
The air has to be vented before testing can begin, so seawater can replace the air in the robot.
