ventilate
verb (used with object)
to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
had been ventilating
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past perfect progressiveof ventilate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The Bloody Tenent was an expression, in printed form, of opinions he had been ventilating frankly enough in conversation, and was intended as a parting-gift to England before his return to America.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
