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ventilate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of VENTILATE

to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion) <a person who tends to ventilate opinions without first thinking them through>

Synonyms air, expound, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice

Related Words advertise, announce, declare, enounce, enunciate, proclaim, say; broadcast, circulate, disseminate, publish; describe, write, write up; sound off, speak out, speak up; chime in; communicate, convey, put across, put over; offer, submit

Near Antonyms censor, restrain, restrict

Antonyms stifle, suppress

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