ventilate
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Is ventilate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).transitive
2. (intransitive, medicine) To breathe.Examples: "Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated. However, with some high thoracic or low cervical lesions, patients who ventilate independently in the emergency department may arrive in the ICU without assisted ventilation."Synonyms: breathe, draw breath, inbreathe, spire, suspireintransitive
3. (slang) To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.Examples: "If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain."slang
Definition source: Wiktionary