give vent to

present singular third person gives vent to · participle present giving vent to · past gave vent to · participle past given vent to

1. To utter; to produce (a sound).

   […]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.

   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

   Synonyms: explode

2. To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).

   Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.

   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

   Synonyms: unload