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vb. (en-pastfan the flames)
Usage examples of "fanned the flames".
The ever-present breeze fanned the flames and the erstwhile tree became a column of golden fire and black smoke.
The Darkling Glory leapt into the air, fanned the flames with its wings.
Shouting and gibbering around him were a dozen goblins of varying shapes and sizes who waved vessels of drink--intoxicating drink from the look of it Selznak put his poker down and fanned the flames by squeezing away at a great, suspended bellows until the fire leaped and roared.
The newspapers -- those were databanks printed on paper and distributed regularly -- thrived on such gossip and fanned the flames of the scandal, not letting it die.
Kesa Khan sat by his fire, his ancient body shivering as the night winds fanned the flames.
Cannon shells fanned the flames already snorting through holes in the cargo box.
Even in the half minute it took him to move the corpse aside the heat grew exponentially, so that by the time he glanced back at the room it was ablaze from side to side, the heat stirring up its own wind, which in turn fanned the flames.