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