venting

3 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way:

vent your frustration/anger/rage/spleen on someone Please don't shout - there's no need to vent your frustration/anger/rage/spleen on me.

I didn't mean to upset anyone, I just needed to vent.

to cause or allow air, smoke, or gas to enter or leave a closed space, or to provide a way of doing this:

The dryer should be vented to the outside using a metal duct.

Smoke from the grill was not being vented properly.