fanned

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of fan

adj

1. Having a fan-line appearance.

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

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

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.”

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

   “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.”