"give vent to" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "gives vent to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving vent to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave vent to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given vent to",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    }
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        "1": "give<,,gave,given> vent to"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 17:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To utter; to produce (a sound)."
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        {
          "ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.)."
      ],
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          "emotion",
          "emotion"
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        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give vent to"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives vent to",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      "form": "giving vent to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "gave vent to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given vent to",
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        "past"
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 17:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To utter; to produce (a sound)."
      ],
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          "text": "Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.)."
      ],
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          "emotion",
          "emotion"
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  "word": "give vent to"
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