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FANNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Especially spread in a fan shape
Example:
the spread-out cards
Synonyms:
fanned; spread-out
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fan
Context examples:
I uncovered it, and a gentle breeze quickly fanned it into a flame.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Fire is fanned by the wind until it leaps up fiercely. So is desire like fire. It is fanned, as by a wind, by sight of the thing desired, or by a new and luring description or comprehension of the thing desired. There lies the temptation.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He fanned away the smoke of his pipe, that he might get a better view of me, and soon recognized me with great delight.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby for lunch. Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
