Fanning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FANNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• FAN, to cool with a device for circulating the air
• cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air
• (of breath or a breeze) blow gently on
• brush or drive away with a waving movement
• swing unsuccessfully at the ball or puck
• strike out (a batter)
• increase the strength of (a fire) by blowing on it or stirring up the air near it
• cause (a belief or emotion) to become stronger or more widespread
• disperse or radiate from a central point to cover a wide area
• spread out or cause to spread out into a semicircular shape
NOUN:
• an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation
• a small sail for keeping the head of a windmill towards the wind.
• a handheld device, typically folding and shaped like a segment of a circle when spread out, that is waved so as to cool the person holding it
• a thing resembling an open fan
• a fan-shaped alluvial or talus deposit at the foot of a slope
• a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cool or refresh with a fan (a device for putting air into motion)
• present participle of fan

Words related to FANNING

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Words that contain FANNING

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How to use FANNING in a sentence

• This girl Fanning, after a quarrel with Sir Horace, came over to Riversbrook with a message for Hill which was virtually a threat.
• The first witness for the defence was Doris Fanning.
• He was fairly close to Sour Creek, the lights fanning out broader and broader as he approached.
• Scenawki, his wife, sat by, fanning him with feathers.
• Not a sound came from his lips save the deep, regular breathing those sitting near could hear and which was like a bellows fanning embers into a white heat.
• She saw, too, that Fanning was anxious to provoke Roy into a race.
• They had been discussing the case against Mortlake and Fanning Harding.
• In advance, as they drew nearer, could be seen Mortlake himself, with a tall man by his side and Fanning Harding.
• Among the crowd that hastened to try to solve the mystery of the Nameless was Fanning Harding, whose attention had been attracted by the rush of the crowd.
• He spread his wings and slowly and softly waved them precisely as if he were fanning his charmer, which was indeed the result he accomplished.
• In the heavy, ether-laden atmosphere flies swarmed horribly, and men detailed as nurses from regimental companies were fanning them from helpless patients.
• This agent was on the point of leaving for England, when news of his intention reached Colonel Fanning.
• A native was fanning him industriously from behind.
• But she strove to drive away her softer thoughts, fanning her fury when it burnt low, and telling herself again of the insult that she had suffered.
• At times shells would strike in the villages of Breuil and Vauxbain, and houses would burst into flames, the gale fanning the fire to great height and hiding the village in smoke.
• I thought his mind wandered, and remained seated by his side, fanning his heated face, and listening to his respiration, which appeared to become more difficult at every breath.
• The yellow nurse woman sat beside a window fanning herself.
• Mademoiselle Henriette was sitting at the high desk in the window looking on the garden, and some one else was there too, fanning herself in one of the worsted-work chairs.
• Indeed, her dislike of Ann was, at all times, smouldering, and needed only a slight fanning to break out.
• Always Alexander held surprises in store for him, which only maddened him the more, fanning his passion into a hotter blaze.
• The man was bending over the fire, fanning it with his hat.
• I had a view of my mother and two other women standing by the bedside of Amos, fanning him.
• Alberto vanished as per request, while Fidelia, with well-affected calmness, commenced humming an opera air, and fanning herself.
• The air was like an oven here, and all your fanning made it no cooler.
• Standing and expressing, opening and holding, turning and meaning, closing and folding, holding and meaning, standing and fanning, joining and remaining, opening and holding.
• Fanning the Grave One of the tales associated with him describes how he saw a young woman in mourning vigorously fanning a newly made grave.
• It was then and there that Marion and Fanning became conspicuous, and were respectively the terror of Whigs and Tories.

Similar words containing FANN without suffix ing

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