ventilator

Noun

Meaning

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

louvre vane flue draft fan stack blade pipe leaf aperture propeller vent furnace duct funnel
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Antonyms

solid closer

Hypernyms

device

Hyponyms

respirator resuscitator

Examples

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. Marjane Satrapi

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Stanisław Lem

Abayomi had said many of the cases in the state were mild and moderate with none of the cases on ventilator. Source: Internet

A 30-year-old federal inmate died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, four weeks after giving birth while she was on a ventilator, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Source: Internet

About 7,570 people remained hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday morning, with more than 1,600 in critical care and on ventilator support. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ventilation system ventilation tube ventilative ventilatory ventilatory book ventilatory gill