air

/er/, /ær/ v [I/T] (CLEAN)

Definition

› to let air from outside come in a room or other inside space to make it smell cleaner, or to put something outside in the air to make it smell cleaner: [M] Let’s open some windows and air out this place.

(Definition of air v (CLEAN) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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air v BROADCAST
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air v MAKE KNOWN
air-conditioned adj
airborne adj
aircraft n
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