Ventilator

Definitions

1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
2. A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
3. Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
   figuratively
4. A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: respirator”

“A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter⟳, a sort⟳ of ventilator to the temper!”

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