ventilate

verb ventilates · ventilating · ventilated

1. To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
2. To circulate air through a building, etc.
3. To provide with a vent.
4. To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
5. To expose something to public examination or discussion. "Well, I did my best. I had no hopes, and it has worked out as I thought. It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice."
6. transitive To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).
7. intransitive To breathe. Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated. However, with some high thoracic or low cervical lesions, patients who ventilate independently in the emergency department may arrive in the ICU without assisted ventilation.

   Similar: breathe, draw breath, inbreathe, spire, suspire

8. slang, transitive To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets. If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain.
9. slang, transitive To stab (a person). What I learned on the bus that night was that I didn't want to be "ventilated" (stabbed), raped by one of the "Cheetos" (gay men), or beaten to a pulp […]