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# {{lb|en|medicine}} A [[machine]] that moves [[breathable]] [[air]] into and out of the [[lungs]] of a [[patient]] who is unable to [[breathe]] sufficiently.
#: {{hyper|en|respirator}}
# {{lb|en|figurative}} Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense [[atmosphere]] or [[situation]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1837|author={{w|Letitia Elizabeth Landon}}|title=Ethel Churchill|volume=2|page=188|text=A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of '''ventilator''' to the temper!}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|slang}} A [[play]] or an [[actor]] so bad as to [[empty]] the [[theater]].
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