give vent to

give vent to

English

Verb

give vent to (third-person singular simple present gives vent to, present participle giving vent to, simple past gave vent to, past participle given vent to)

1. To utter; to produce (a sound).
   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, OCLC 1085228267, page 17:

     […] the news I had just received, struck me as the wildest, most ridiculous incongruity I had ever heard of or imagined,—and I gave vent to a shout of laughter.

2. To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744, page 25:

     Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.