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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ventilate.

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  • adjective exposed to air

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Examples

  • All dwellings should be _freely ventilated_ during the _night_ as well as day, and it is a great mistake to suppose, as in Liberia (where every settler sleeps with every part of his house closely shut -- doors, windows, and all) that it is deletereous to have the house ventilated during the evening, although they go out to night meetings, visit each other in the evening, and frequently sit on their porches and piazzas till a late hour in the night, conversing, without any injurious effects whatever.

    Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

  • Store them in ventilated plastic bags in your fridge. o Cure them at room temperature for several days before roasting. o Cut or cross cut the shells before roasting. o To roast them in your oven, place the nuts on a cookie sheetat 425 ºF for 25 minutes.

    Chestnuts roasting by an open fire… « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • These are also known as ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines

    Chapter 4 1992

  • These are also known as ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines

    Chapter 5 1992

  • Such latrines are known as ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines.

    Chapter 4 1992

  • "The air is constantly being ventilated, which is good to know," she said.

    Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed 2010

  • When this initiative failed, he became amiably eccentric, lobbying the government with his "inventions," such as ventilated tents and waterproof boots that he thought would improve the lot of troops in the Crimea — another inspiration for Arthur, who would later pepper the War Office with ideas for innovations such as body armor.

    'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: 2007

  • Belleville Church property case, [November, 1837], ... the whole matter was "ventilated," and the result was that the legal decision of the highest judicial tribunal of the land confirmed the Wesleyan

    The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842

  • It has a chic small main window which in spite of the many buttons it has, keeps a nice, "ventilated" look.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • It has a chic small main window which in spite of the many buttons it has, keeps a nice, "ventilated" look.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

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