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fanned

  • /fænd/ Canada, US, UK
  • [feənd] ~ [fɛənd]
  • /fand/ British, Northern England, Scotland
  • /fæːnd/ Australia
  • [feːnd] ~ [fɛeːnd]
  • /fɛnd/ New Zealand

Sounds like band · Rhymes with -ænd

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of fan

adjective more fanned · most fanned

  1. Having a fan-line appearance. Its head was rounder and larger, its tail more fanned.
  2. Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated. 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.

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@misc{fanned_2026,
  title = {fanned},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fanned},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}