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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move outward; "The soldiers fanned out" [syn: diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a group of people or things fan out, they move forwards away from a particular point in different directions. The main body of British, American, and French troops had fanned out to the west... = spread out PHRASAL VERB: V P

Moby Thesaurus

aberrate, bestrew, branch, branch out, broadcast, circumfuse, deal out, deploy, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, divaricate, diverge, divide, expand, extend, fan, flare, go away, go off, issue, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, propagate, publish, radiate, ramify, retail, scatter, separate, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, strew, unfold, utter, widen