fanned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

Verb

fanned

1. simple past and past participle of fan

Adjective

fanned (comparative more fanned, superlative most fanned)

1. Having a fan-line appearance.
   • 2006, Jan Deblieu, Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars:

     Its head was rounder and larger, its tail more fanned.

   • 2023, Peter Niemz, ‎Alfred Teischinger, ‎Dick Sandberg, Springer Handbook of Wood Science and Technology, page 606:

     The result is sometimes a very fanned, rough cutting surface [ 7 ] .

2. Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated.
   • 2013, Liqun Cao, ‎Ivan Y. Sun, ‎Bill Hebenton, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology:

     While high-status punishments have slowly driven out low-status treatment in Europe, harsh punishment became the ideal during the American Revolution that was more fanned by populism and puritan Christianity.

   • 2021, Plutarch's Morals:

     But anger on the contrary is much more fanned by what angry persons do.

   • 2023, Bertha Von Suttner, Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner, page 187:

     In my early childhood I had been seized by the passion for reading and learning; through my intercourse with Elvira, poetess and daughter of a savant, it was still more fanned into flame, and never, under any circumstances, has it left me.

Derived terms

• outfanned
• unfanned

Anagrams

• nefand