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FAN OUT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move outward

Example:

The soldiers fanned out

Synonyms:

diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "fan out" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fan out"):

percolate (spread gradually)

creep (grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface))

bleed; run (be diffused)

mantle (spread over a surface, like a mantle)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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