Venturi

Definitions

1. A surname from Italian.
2. A venturi tube.
3. The throat of a carburetor.
4. A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
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Equivalents

Examples

“He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise⟳ on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send⟳ him awake⟳, pleading.”

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