1. to allow fresh air to enter and move through a space
2. to discuss or express something openly
Usage: formal
3. to provide artificial respiration using mechanical equipment
Usage: medical

Examples

• Please open the windows to ventilate the stuffy room.
• The kitchen fan helps ventilate cooking odors.
• She decided to ventilate her concerns at the meeting.
• The patient needed to be ventilated after surgery.
• We should ventilate the basement to prevent mold growth.
• The committee provided a forum to ventilate grievances.
• The attic needs better ventilation to stay cool in summer.