ventilate
verb (used with object)
to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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His brisk, irreverent, earnest book will ventilate a good many stuffy rooms in the U.S. schoolhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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