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fanning out

fanning out is the present participle and gerund of fan out.

Meaning of fan out

Verb

fan out (third-person singular simple present fans out, present participle fanning out, simple past and past participle fanned out)

  1. (also, figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To spread out into the shape of a fan.
    • West of the summit the cutting fans out at the entrance to the new yard on the north side.1963 June, “News and Comment: Sheffield scheme progress”, in Modern Railways, page 368
  2. (slang) To display (or reveal) oneself as a fan or obsessive.
    • A 2014 study published by Innovations in Clincal Neuroscience, however, pointed to "narcissistic features, dissociation, addictive tendencies, stalking behavior, and compulsive buying" among people who fan out over celebrities.2023 July 24, Elise Solé, “Should you worry if your teen is a 'stan'?”, in Today.com

Questions about fanning out

What is fanning out the present participle and gerund of?
Fanning out is the present participle and gerund of fan out.

Words near fanning out in the dictionary

  1. Fannin County
  2. fanning
  3. Fanning Island
  4. fanning mill
  5. fanning mills
  6. fanning out
  7. fanning the fire
  8. fanning the flame
  9. fanning the flames
  10. fannings
  11. Fannins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanning out (page history and authors); fan out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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