Word info Antonyms

give vent to

Verb

Meaning

To utter; to produce (a sound).

To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).

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Examples

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Georges Bataille

Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone. Cesare Pavese

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings. Chad Everett

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. Virginia Woolf

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