FANNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fanned mean? 

• FANNED (adjective)
  The adjective FANNED has 1 sense:

1. especially spread in a fan shape

  Familiarity information: FANNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially spread in a fan shape

Synonyms:

fanned; spread-out

Context example:

the spread-out cards

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

 Context examples 

The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The fires, believed to have been sparked by lightning on Saturday, were fanned by dry, hot winds as temperatures reached 41 C (106 F) throughout Sunday.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I was too attentive to the Doctor and his wife, to give any heed to this request; and it made no impression on anybody else; so Mrs. Markleham panted, stared, and fanned herself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He did not mind the hunger so much, but the lack of water caused him severe suffering and fanned his wrath to fever-pitch.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As he did so, a draught of air fanned him, and a large, winged body swept ominously and silently past.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When he came back he fanned the embers of his fire again and warmed himself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was an even choice between this and the west-north-westerly course which the wind permitted; but the warm airs of the south fanned my desire for a warmer sea and swayed my decision.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You look like Balzac's 'Femme Peinte Par Elle-Meme'," he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her coffee cup in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Back it came, with the editor's regrets, and Martin sent it to San Francisco again, this time to The Hornet, a pretentious monthly that had been fanned into a constellation of the first magnitude by the brilliant journalist who founded it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs. Markleham fanned herself, and shook her head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)