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gives vent to

gives vent to is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 gives vent to

What is gives vent to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gives vent to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of give vent to.

Words near gives vent to in the dictionary

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

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