pan

/pæn/ verb [T] (present participle panning, past tense and past participle panned) informal

Translation

› to criticize something severely

acımasızca eleştirmek

[often passive] His last novel was panned by the critics.1173

pan out phrasal verb

› to develop in a particular way

belli bir biçimde gelişmek

Not all his ideas had panned out in the way he would have liked.1838

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

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