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eventilating

eventilating is the present participle and gerund of eventilate.

Meaning of eventilate

Verb

eventilate (third-person singular simple present eventilates, present participle eventilating, simple past and past participle eventilated)

  1. (obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
    • I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder
  2. (obsolete) To discuss; to ventilate.
    • I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: […]1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “Of the Court of Admiralty”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great...

Questions about eventilating

What is eventilating the present participle and gerund of?
Eventilating is the present participle and gerund of eventilate.

Words near eventilating in the dictionary

  1. eventify
  2. eventifying
  3. eventilate
  4. eventilated
  5. eventilates
  6. eventilating
  7. eventilation
  8. eventime
  9. eventimes
  10. eventing
  11. eventings

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