ppl. a. [f. VENT v.2] † a. Exploded, blown up. Obs. b. Allowed to escape; discharged.
1639. S. Du Verger, trans. Camus’ Admir. Events, 30. All the subtilties … were as so many vented mines, without any effect.
1911. Contemp. Rev., Oct., 522. The moral forces disengaged by the death of David Livingstone are a singular instance of this vented energy.
