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given vent to

given vent to is the past participle of give vent to.

Meaning of give vent to

Verb

give vent to (third-person singular simple present gives vent to, present participle giving vent to, simple past gave vent to, past participle given vent to)

  1. To utter; to produce (a sound).
    • […]the news I had just received, struck me as the wildest, most ridiculous incongruity I had ever heard of or imagined,—and I gave vent to a shout of laughter.1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...
    Synonyms:
    explode
  2. To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).
    • Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding...
    Synonyms:
    unload

Questions about given vent to

What is given vent to the past participle of?
Given vent to is the past participle of give vent to.

Words near given vent to in the dictionary

  1. given two shits
  2. given two squirts
  3. given two squirts of piss
  4. given up
  5. given up the ghost
  6. given vent to
  7. given voice
  8. given way
  9. given weight
  10. given what for
  11. given with one hand and taken away with the other

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