noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vent...spleen (= anger )
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The meeting gave us a chance to vent our spleen .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
vent
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Pray heaven Araminta was not going to vent her spleen again!
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Or perhaps it would simply be an opportunity to vent their spleen .
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Nell McCafferty, Bernadette Devlin and other notables vented their feminist spleen at an appreciative audience.
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We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.
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I feel much better now I've vented my spleen on this subject.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An example of this is the young man with the enlarged spleen whose story was told in Chapter 1.
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Bernie Nichols of the Chicago Blackhawks recently returned from a spleen injury.
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He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with broken ribs and a damaged spleen .
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Pray heaven Araminta was not going to vent her spleen again!
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There's evidence of splenomegaly, enlargement of the spleen , and of the liver.
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These pits represent cellular debris normal removed by the spleen .
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We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.