fanned

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fan

comparative more fanned · superlative most fanned

1. Having a fan-line appearance.

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

   2006, Jan Deblieu, Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars

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

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

2. Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated.

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

   2021, Plutarch's Morals

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   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.

   2013, Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, Bill Hebenton, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology

   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.

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