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Definition of venting : of Vent

Synonyms:

expelling, electric discharge, sacking, run, release, dismissal, firing off, arc, emission, firing, waiver, outpouring, liberation, dismission, discharge, sack, spark, electric arc

exiting, running off, spouting, issuing, departing

dispelling, ridding, capitulating, forgoing, dropping, relinquishing, disowning, casting off, relegating, abdicating, parting with, forsaking, letting go, canceling, waiving, surrendering, releasing, vacating, leaving, dismissing, deserting, renouncing, disposing

seeping, discarding, checking, exuding, excising, excluding, ejecting, chopping, culling, shedding, emitting, oppugning, discharging, clipping, rejecting, trashing, cropping, sniping, vomiting, jilting, disclaiming, jettisoning, blacklisting, shearing, cutting, curtailing, disallowing, secreting, eliminating, blackballing, erupting, junking, lopping, exhausting, excreting, disgorging, ejaculating, draining, abandoning, disapproving, barring, deep-sixing, evacuating, spewing, belching, denying

Usage examples:

• There is nothing, however, like taking things philosophically; so, after venting my spite at the weather in one or two short grumbles, I sat down in a passable state of equanimity to breakfast. - "Hudson Bay", R.M. Ballantyne.
• Let the husband beware, when things go wrong with him in business affairs, of venting his bitter feelings of disappointment and despair in the presence of his wife and family,- feelings which, while abroad, he finds it practicable to restrain. - "Routledge's Manual of Etiquette", George Routledge.
• His enemies were delighted with the opportunity of venting their long- suppressed spleen. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.