fan

/fæn/ verb [T] (present participle fanning, past tense and past participle fanned)

Translation

› to move the air around with a fan or something used like a fan, to make it feel cooler

havalandırmak, yelpazelemek

[often reflexive] The spectators sat in the bright sun, fanning themselves with newspapers.16171519

fan out phrasal verb

› If a group of people fan out, they move out in different directions from a single point.

bir noktadan değişik yönlere dağılmak

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(Definition of fan verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed

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