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1. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
    
2. An enthusiastic devotee of sports
   - sports fan, rooter
    
3. An ardent follower and admirer
   - buff, devotee, lover

1. Strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
    
2. Make (an emotion) fiercer
   "fan hatred"
    
3. Agitate the air
    
4. Separate the chaff from by using air currents
   "She stood there fanning chaff all day in the field"
   - winnow

Derived forms: fanned, fans, fanning

See also: fandom

Type of: agitate, compound, deepen, device, enthusiast, follower, heighten, intensify, partisan, partizan, shake, sieve, sift, strain, strike out

Part of: cooling system, engine cooling system, followers, following

Encyclopedia: Fan