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)

To utter; to produce (a sound).
- 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, 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.
To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 25:
  Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.

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