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Purging vs Venting - What's the difference?

purging | venting |

As verbs the difference between purging and venting

is that purging is present participle of lang=en while venting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between purging and venting

is that purging is the act by which something is purged while venting is the act by which something is vented.

purging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is purged.
  • (medicine) vomiting
  • * 1849 , The Journal of Health and Disease (page 98)
    • He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings

    venting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is vented.
  • * 2007 , Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century (page 94)
    • It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.