When you breathe in, you're inhaling all that invisible stuff around us called air — a mixture of gases that includes oxygen.
To air something out can mean to expose it to the air in order to freshen it up, like leaving stinky sneakers out on the porch for a while to help them smell better. But to air a grievance or a secret is a whole other story — that means to publicize something that wasn't public knowledge before. Perhaps you have a cousin who takes great delight in airing all the family's secrets.
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a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
expose to fresh air
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the region above the ground
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a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
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a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
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medium for radio and television broadcasting
broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
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travel via aircraft
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