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safety-valves

safety-valves is the alternative form of safety valves.

safety-valves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of safety-valve.

Meaning of safety-valve

Verb

safety-valve (third-person singular simple present safety-valves, present participle safety-valving, simple past and past participle safety-valved)

  1. (transitive) To use a relief valve on (a container holding a gas or vapour) to relieve excessive pressure which has built up inside.
  2. (transitive) To install a relief valve on (such a container) for that purpose.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To use some mechanism to relieve (physical or emotional pressure or tension).

Forms of safety-valves

alternative formsafety valves

Questions about safety-valves

What is safety-valves the alternative form of?
Safety-valves is the alternative form of safety valves.

Words near safety-valves in the dictionary

  1. safety-deposit box
  2. safety-deposit boxes
  3. safety-deposits
  4. safety-valve
  5. safety-valved
  6. safety-valves
  7. safety-valving
  8. safetying
  9. safetyism
  10. safetyist
  11. safetyists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safety-valves (page history and authors); safety-valve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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