SPLEEN


Meaning of SPLEEN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

vent...spleen (= anger )

The meeting gave us a chance to vent our spleen .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

vent

Pray heaven Araminta was not going to vent her spleen again!

Or perhaps it would simply be an opportunity to vent their spleen .

Nell McCafferty, Bernadette Devlin and other notables vented their feminist spleen at an appreciative audience.

We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.

I feel much better now I've vented my spleen on this subject.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An example of this is the young man with the enlarged spleen whose story was told in Chapter 1.

Bernie Nichols of the Chicago Blackhawks recently returned from a spleen injury.

He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with broken ribs and a damaged spleen .

Pray heaven Araminta was not going to vent her spleen again!

There's evidence of splenomegaly, enlargement of the spleen , and of the liver.

These pits represent cellular debris normal removed by the spleen .

We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.